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Public Friend

Public Friend is the alternative letter-case form of public Friend.

Noun capitalized: public Friend

public Friend (plural public Friends)

  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...1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, page 599
    • George Gray, a public Friend, who had come from Barbadoes early to settle in Pennsylvania, this year returned thither again in the service of the ministry.1846, Robert Smith, editor, The Friend, volume 1, page 172

Forms of Public Friend

pluralPublic Friends
pluralpublic Friends
alternative formPublic Friend

Origin of Public Friend

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

Questions about Public Friend

What does Public Friend mean?
Public Friend means a Quaker authorized to travel between meetings and communities to preach; a Quaker preacher (in the 18th and 19th centuries).
What is Public Friend the alternative letter-case form of?
Public Friend is the alternative letter-case form of public Friend.
What part of speech is Public Friend?
Public Friend is a noun.
What is the plural of Public Friend?
The plural of Public Friend is Public Friends.

Words near Public Friend in the dictionary

  1. public enemy number one
  2. public eye
  3. public figure
  4. public figures
  5. public finance
  6. Public Friend
  7. Public Friends
  8. public funds
  9. public good
  10. public goods
  11. public health

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