come-outer

• comeouter

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

come-outer (plural come-outers)

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.
   • 2003, M. Louise Greene, Ph. D., The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut, page 144

     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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