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
Notwithstanding the protests of the Protestant party, it was decreed that if such an event should occur the seceder could claim his own personal property, but not the property attached to his office.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by James MacCaffrey
What is counted as virtue in the faithful member of the herd, is vice in the seceder.
From The Bride of Dreams by Mellie von Auw
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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
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