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

Although some of these rites and ceremonies have been revealed by apostates, yet there are others of such a character that even the bitterest seceder from the church would not dare unfold them.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

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

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

That the seceder must himself prove In the face of the world's condemnation.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von