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Quaker vs Unitarian - What's the difference?

quaker | unitarian |

As nouns the difference between quaker and unitarian

is that quaker is quaker (believer of the quaker faith) while unitarian is one who denies the doctrine of the trinity, believing that god exists only in one person; a unipersonalist.

As an adjective unitarian is

espousing a unitary view of something.

quaker

English

Etymology 1

A name given to members of the in England when, in his defense, the leader of the Society said that the English judge would be the one to quake with fear before God on his Day of Judgment.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, Quaker gun , Quakerism , Quakerly}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One who plays any games.

    • unitarian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Christian who does not believe in the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.
  • A follower of Unitarian Universalism; or a member of a Unitarian Universalist Church in North America who adhered to, or identifies with, the Unitarian part of that church prior to consolidation in 1961.
  • (rare) A Muslim, Jew or other kind of monotheist who is not a Christian.
  • A member of a certain political movement, especially the Unitarios'' of nineteenth century Argentina (known as the ''Unitarian Party in English).

    • Synonyms

    * Unitarian Universalist

    Antonyms

    * Trinitarian

    Derived terms

    * Unitarianism

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to Unitarianism

    • References