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Shakerlike

Shakerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of the Shaker sect.

Adjective

Shakerlike (comparative more Shakerlike, superlative most Shakerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the Shaker sect.
    • Come down Shakerlike, / Come down holy, / Come down Shakerlike, / Let's all go to glory1982, Daniel M. Hutton, Old Shakertown and the Shakers, page 31
    • Others were set rejoicing, Shakerlike, singing and dancing their praise to the Lord.1987, Flo Morse, The Shakers and the World's People, page 78

Forms of Shakerlike

comparativemore Shakerlike
superlativemost Shakerlike

Origin of Shakerlike

From Shaker + -like.

Questions about Shakerlike

What does Shakerlike mean?
Shakerlike means resembling or characteristic of the Shaker sect.
What part of speech is Shakerlike?
Shakerlike is an adjective.

Words near Shakerlike in the dictionary

  1. Shakerish
  2. Shakerism
  3. Shakerisms
  4. Shakerley
  5. Shakerleys
  6. Shakerlike
  7. shakers
  8. shakes
  9. shakes a leg
  10. shakes down
  11. shakes hands

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