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 was engaged afterwards in controversy with George Keith, a seceder from the Friends.
From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood
The strength of this presumption is not impaired by any vague words of Baxter coupling the name of Falkland with that of Digby as a seceder from the party on the occasion of the Bill.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
Lord Cranborne, the chief conservative seceder, described the bill in its final shape, after undergoing countless transformations, as the result of the adoption of the principles of Bright at the dictation of Gladstone.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Be a rebel or a revolutionary to your heart's content, but a mere seceder never.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
