public Friend

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Quaker authorized to travel between meetings and communities to preach; a Quaker preacher (in the 18th and 19th centuries).
    — Thomas Story [1670?–1742], a public Friend and the Recorder of the city, has also spoken of this calamity [an excessively hot summer in 1699] in his Journal, as being a scourge which carried off from six to eight of the inhabitants daily, [...in total] about 220, of whom about 80 to 90 were of the Society of Friends.

词形变化

public Friends plural Public Friend alternative

词源

Friend denoted a member of the Society of Friends i.e. a Quaker.
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