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
I shouldn't have been at all sorry if he had been the seceder; he's bored terribly, I know, yet he naturally feels bound to keep his place.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
And all the more if the seceder possesses a personally suggestive power, and impresses people by the display of some one amazing talent - organizing, dramatic or musical.
From The Bride of Dreams by Mellie von Auw
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
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
