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

Another seceder was �tienne Parent, the editor of the revived Canadien, and one of the great figures in French-Canadian literature.

From The 'Patriotes' of '37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by DeCelles, Alfred D. (Alfred Duclos)

Be a rebel or a revolutionary to your heart's content, but a mere seceder never.

From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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