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
He was engaged afterwards in controversy with George Keith, a seceder from the Friends.
From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Ellwood, Thomas
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
The result appears in a letter to Knox from a seceder, written just after Queen Mary escaped from Lochleven in May 1568.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew
