Brewer's: Aminadab

A Quaker. The Scripture name has a double m, but in old comedies, where the character represents a Quaker, the name has generally only one. Obadiah is used, also, to signify a Quaker, and Rachel a Quakeress.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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