Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, one who comes out; hence, one who abandons or emphatically dissents from an established creed, opinion, custom, sect, etc.; a radical reformer, especially as to religious doctrine or practice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.
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- noun One who
abandons orwithdraws from anestablished religion ,opinion ,custom ,creed , etc. - noun One who seeks
radical political orreligious reform .
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Examples
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Like a majority of the members, I was a "come-outer" from another faith, in my case Southern Baptist.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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Like a majority of the members, I was a "come-outer" from another faith, in my case Southern Baptist.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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Like a majority of the members, I was a "come-outer" from another faith, in my case Southern Baptist.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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Like a majority of the members, I was a "come-outer" from another faith, in my case Southern Baptist.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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My own view is that the UUA exploits the newcomer/come-outer myth to hold onto its own highly centralized self-referrent power in exactly the same kind of small-church polity it condemns in our congregations.
Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Raising committed UUs. 2008
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It enacted that henceforth certificates should be lodged with the _town clerk, _ and permitted a come-outer to return to the society from which he had separated.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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He would have nothing of worldly advantage to gain and much to lose as a "come-outer" from the Establishment.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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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.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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She was a come-outer before her son was, and ever appealed in spirit to the God of Battles for peace.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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THE attitude of the Church of England Puritans toward the Separatists from that church was the attitude of the earnest, patient, hopeful reformer toiling for the removal of public abuses, toward the restless “come-outer” who quits the conflict in despair of succeeding, and, “without tarrying for any,” sets up his little model of good order outside.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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