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

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 it cannot possibly investigate each particular case, whether the seceder is perhaps a faithful follower of Christ, a truly original spirit or simply an eccentric fool or weakling.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

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

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

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