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

What is counted as virtue in the faithful member of the herd, is vice in the seceder.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

Gissing, incorrigible seceder from responsibilities that did not touch his soul, did not dare tell his benefactor the horrid truth.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher

Cowles at once resigned from the High Council and the Presidency of the church at Nauvoo, and was looked on as a seceder.

From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander

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