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
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 John Pentland Mahaffy
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 Andrew Lang
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
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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