(US, historical) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservativ
(US, historical) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Quakers in 1827.
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(US, historical) The religious principles of the Hicksites.
(United States, slang) A country dweller with liberal or progressive views.
(US, historical) One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
(British) A supporter of William Hague, or his economic or political policies.
(US) A member of any of various religious groups historically descended from the nineteenth-century Restoration Movement.