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 seceder took up his abode in a hollow tree within speaking distance of his companion's cabin.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore

He hopes to see me in my place, And woe betide the sad seceder, Whose absence helps to throw disgrace Both on his Party and his Leader.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various

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 Mahaffy, John Pentland

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