seceder
Example Sentences
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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
Yet the church at Hobart Town, founded by a seceder, was under his care.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Be a rebel or a revolutionary to your heart's content, but a mere seceder never.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He became chaplain to Charles II., but the Act of Uniformity again made him a seceder.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
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
