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 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
"And is it Landry, the recreant, the apostate, the only seceder of our family from the just cause, who speaks thus?" said the old woman lifting her head with a haggard expression.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
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 Mellie von Auw
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
