Wilburite

Wilburite
/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 -ITE1]

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