Home › Words › H › hicksitehicksitehicksite means 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 Quakers in 1827.EtymologyFrom Hicks + -ite.nounA 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 Quakers in 1827.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.hicksism 70% match — The religious principles of the Hicksites. vs hicksite →higginsite 57% match — A member of the Holy Ghost and Us Society, a millenarian religious sect, under its local minister George W. Higgins in Maine, United States. vs hicksite →kilhamite 53% match — A member of the Methodist New Connexion, a Protestant nonconformist church formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists. vs hicksite →bickertonite 52% match — A member of the Church of Jesus Christ founded in 1862 in Pennsylvania. vs hicksite →whig 50% match — A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party. vs hicksite →chapeler 50% match — A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood. vs hicksite →seceder 50% match — One who secedes, such as from a country or organization vs hicksite →seeker 49% match — One who seeks. vs hicksite →