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

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

He hopes to see me in my place, And woe betide the sad seceder, Whose absence helps to throw disgrace Both on his Party and his Leader.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various

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

Sunday morning we went to hear Stopford Brooke, a seceder from the established church.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted