come-outer
See also: comeouter
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom come out + -er, referring to a passage in Corinthians in the Bible: "come out from among them, and be ye separate".
Noun
editcome-outer (plural come-outers)
- 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.
- 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.