Peculiar People

Meaning

Noun

• The Quakers.
• A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.

Origin

• In reference to Deuteronomy 14:2 in the Bible (KJV): "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth."