come-outer

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As she took her departure, she told the come-outer -- or so I fancied -- that there was a man under the tree, a pestilent fellow, and it would be well to get a little out of his reach.

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  1. 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. [Slang, U. S.] I am a Christian man of the sect called Come-outers. Haliburton (Sam. Slick), Human Nature. L—R—is orthodox, and you are a kind of come-outer, but you will like each other for all that. S. Bowles, in Merriam, I. 209.

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