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Definition of: Society of Friends
A Christian religious group, founded in England by George Fox in the middle of the seventeenth century, characterized by their doctrine of “waiting upon the Spirit” for direct guidance and their repudiation of ritual, formal sacraments, oaths, and violence: commonly known as Quakers.
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