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 all the more if the seceder possesses a personally suggestive power, and impresses people by the display of some one amazing talent - organizing, dramatic or musical.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

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

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

He was engaged afterwards in controversy with George Keith, a seceder from the Friends. 

From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Ellwood, Thomas

Correntian was like a seceder from the rest of the brethren, and the unacknowledged breach between them grew daily more impossible to heal.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von