Hicksite

Hicksite
/hik"suyt/, n.
a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
[1825-35, Amer.; after Elias Hicks (1748-1830), American Quaker preacher; see -ITE1]

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