Word Meanings - QUAKINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.

Related words: (words related to QUAKINGLY)

• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• QUAKY
  Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• QUAKING
  a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen , an American species of poplar , the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• QUAKERY
  Quakerism. Hallywell.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• QUAKERISM
  The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
• QUAKETAIL
  A wagtail.
• QUAKERLY
  Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• QUAKINESS
  The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• QUAKE
  1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To
• QUAKINGLY
  In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.
• SEAQUAKE
  A quaking of the sea.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• EARTHQUAKE
  A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin,