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
The seceder took up his abode in a hollow tree within speaking distance of his companion's cabin.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt
Cowles at once resigned from the High Council and the Presidency of the church at Nauvoo, and was looked on as a seceder.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
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
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
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