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
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 Mellie von Auw
They denied that each member which had so long profited by the arrangement had a right to secede, and in any case they declared that they would coerce the seceder.
From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy
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
The result appears in a letter to Knox from a seceder, written just after Queen Mary escaped from Lochleven in May 1568.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
