secede
verb (used without object)
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
seceder
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a word derived from
secede.
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
He was engaged afterwards in controversy with George Keith, a seceder from the Friends.
From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood
The strength of this presumption is not impaired by any vague words of Baxter coupling the name of Falkland with that of Digby as a seceder from the party on the occasion of the Bill.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
"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
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
