WILBURITE


Meaning of WILBURITE in English

/wil"beuh ruyt'/ , n.

a member of a conservative body of Quakers formed in 1845 in protest against the evangelicalism of the Gurneyites.

[ 1860-65, Amer.; after John Wilbur (1774-1856), American Quaker preacher; see -ITE 1 ]

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