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

"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

Lord Cranborne, the chief conservative seceder, described the bill in its final shape, after undergoing countless transformations, as the result of the adoption of the principles of Bright at the dictation of Gladstone.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

Notwithstanding the protests of the Protestant party, it was decreed that if such an event should occur the seceder could claim his own personal property, but not the property attached to his office.

From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James

That the seceder must himself prove In the face of the world's condemnation.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von