come-outer
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becoming, former
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One who abandons or withdraws from an established religion, opinion, custom, creed, etc.
Despite her family's wishes, she left Christianity, becoming a come-outer of her former faith.
One who seeks radical political or religious reform.
The passage of the Act for the Support of Literature and Religion raised, as the Congregationalists ought to have known it would, a violent protest from every dissenter and from every political come−outer.
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2Despite her family's wishes, she left Christianity, becoming a come-outer of her former faith.
WiktionaryThe passage of the Act for the Support of Literature and Religion raised, as the Congregationalists ought to have known it would, a violent protest from every dissenter and from every political come−o
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