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

Be a rebel or a revolutionary to your heart's content, but a mere seceder never.

From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I shouldn't have been at all sorry if he had been the seceder; he's bored terribly, I know, yet he naturally feels bound to keep his place.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

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

And all the more if the seceder possesses a personally suggestive power, and impresses people by the display of some one amazing talent - organizing, dramatic or musical.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von