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
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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 George Gissing
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 John Pentland Mahaffy
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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
That the seceder must himself prove In the face of the world's condemnation.
From The Bride of Dreams by Mellie von Auw