seceder

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Though they never formally accepted the teachings or leadership of Elias Hicks, the seceders were known as "Hicksites" for want of a better label.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the seceders, Mrs. Huldah Joy, an educated and intensely religious woman, was one of the most active and earnest, her husband, F. R. Joy, and her daughters, also doing good service.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

I should think you would naturally tend towards the seceders here.”

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

He succeeded in obtaining some papers connected with the above-mentioned seceders from the society, who had, after being turned out, formed an actual conspiracy in Paris and London.

From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Marx, Karl

Other men perchance from Garrard, From the inland hillside city, Took up arms to save the Union, Fought the desperate seceders.

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap