come-outer

See also: comeouter

English

Alternative forms

• comeouter

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Related terms

• come-outerism
• come-outism