• (n.) 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 Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
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(from the article `Hicks, Elias`) ...responsible by some for the Quaker schism of 1827–28. After this separation Hicks`s followers called themselves the Liberal branch of the Society ... ...among the Friends that began in 1827, when the Philadelphia yearly meeting separated into two groups because of theological and social ... T...
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Hicks'ite noun 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 Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
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a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
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