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

Lord Cranborne, the chief conservative seceder, described the bill in its final shape, after undergoing countless transformations, as the result of the adoption of the principles of Bright at the dictation of Gladstone.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

I shouldn't have been at all sorry if he had been the seceder; he's bored terribly, I know, yet he naturally feels bound to keep his place.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

And it cannot possibly investigate each particular case, whether the seceder is perhaps a faithful follower of Christ, a truly original spirit or simply an eccentric fool or weakling.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

They denied that each member which had so long profited by the arrangement had a right to secede, and in any case they declared that they would coerce the seceder.

From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland