seceder
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One prominent seceder, Oxford Researcher John Roche, has collected 1,500 case histories of disenchanted Opus members that he hopes to present to John Paul this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The seceder took up his abode in a hollow tree within speaking distance of his companion's cabin.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
And then we proceeded to the home of the seceder.
From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank
He hopes to see me in my place, And woe betide the sad seceder, Whose absence helps to throw disgrace Both on his Party and his Leader.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various
"And is it Landry, the recreant, the apostate, the only seceder of our family from the just cause, who speaks thus?" said the old woman lifting her head with a haggard expression.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
