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

Yet the church at Hobart Town, founded by a seceder, was under his care.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

Although some of these rites and ceremonies have been revealed by apostates, yet there are others of such a character that even the bitterest seceder from the church would not dare unfold them.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

The next seceder ambitiously chose the name of a Prussian city—Berlin.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various

And it cannot possibly investigate each particular case, whether the seceder is perhaps a faithful follower of Christ, a truly original spirit or simply an eccentric fool or weakling.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von