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come-outer

noun

Etymology

From come out + -er, referring to a passage in Corinthians in the Bible: "come out from among them, and be ye separate".

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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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