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
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)
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
The seceder took up his abode in a hollow tree within speaking distance of his companion's cabin.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
The strength of this presumption is not impaired by any vague words of Baxter coupling the name of Falkland with that of Digby as a seceder from the party on the occasion of the Bill.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
