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

He became chaplain to Charles II., but the Act of Uniformity again made him a seceder.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

"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