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 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 Lang, Andrew
"And is it Landry, the recreant, the apostate, the only seceder of our family from the just cause, who speaks thus?" said the old woman lifting her head with a haggard expression.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
That the seceder must himself prove In the face of the world's condemnation.
From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von
Correntian was like a seceder from the rest of the brethren, and the unacknowledged breach between them grew daily more impossible to heal.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
