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
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
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
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
Yet the church at Hobart Town, founded by a seceder, was under his care.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
