Wilkinsonians

Noun

Wilkinsonian (plural Wilkinsonians)

1. A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends.
   • The Wilkinsonians are equally to the present point. They lived, for the most part, not more than twenty- five miles from Manchester, New York, the town in which Mormonism was first preached; […]1994, Ruth Kauffman, Reginald Wright Kauffman, The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 12
2. A supporter of any of a number of other people named Wilkinson.
   • If Mr. Doulton does not know what consistency is, teach him, and place Mr. Wilkinson at the head of the poll. That was regarded as "vituperation," and the St. Giles's poet was called into play. This was the shot he fired at the Wilkinsonians […]1879, George Hill, The electoral history of the borough of Lambeth since 1832, page 134, referring to supporters of William Arthur Wilkinson

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