Hicksite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hicksite \Hicks"ite\, n.
     A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias
     Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the
     divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the
     conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United
     States, in 1827.


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