Talk:steeplehouse
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An IP user persistently contests the current definition, "building in which Quakers meet for worship", and that determination appears to be justified as it seems to have been mostly used as a polemical term for the churches used by non-Quakers. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:02, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
- The OED has " Used by the early Quakers (and, before them, sometimes by other scrupulous persons) instead of ‘church’, on the ground that that word ought not to be applied to a building." SemperBlotto (talk) 11:07, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
I have cited the meaning as "church". I think it highly unlikely that this means the "building in which Quakers meet for worship" - that is a meetinghouse. One of the cites is from the Journal of George Fox (founder of the Quaker faith), and it clearly refers to a non-Quaker church building. Kiwima (talk) 21:19, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:02, 12 April 2021 (UTC)