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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

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 Linn, William Alexander

Lord Cranborne, the chief conservative seceder, described the bill in its final shape, after undergoing countless transformations, as the result of the adoption of the principles of Bright at the dictation of Gladstone.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

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