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

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 result appears in a letter to Knox from a seceder, written just after Queen Mary escaped from Lochleven in May 1568. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew

And then we proceeded to the home of the seceder.

From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank

The strength of this presumption is not impaired by any vague words of Baxter coupling the name of Falkland with that of Digby as a seceder from the party on the occasion of the Bill.

From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin