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 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

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 Auw, Mellie von

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

The next seceder ambitiously chose the name of a Prussian city—Berlin.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various