renegado

“Well," says William, immediately, "but art thou a Christian or a heathen, or what we call a renegado?”

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“According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, renegade's earliest meanings had to do with deserting one's religion, coming from the Spanish word renegado, originally Christian turned Muslim.”

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“According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, Renegade's earliest meanings had to do with deserting one's religion, coming from the Spanish word "renegado," originally "Christian turned Muslim.”

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“According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, Renegade's earliest meanings had to do with deserting one's religion, coming from the Spanish word 'renegado,' originally 'Christian turned Muslim.”

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“When I came to the word renegado, after telling that it meant one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter, I added, "Sometimes we say, a Gower.”

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“Although the "renegado" was very much in evidence in the vessels of the”

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean

“We have remarked before on the curious fact of how the "renegado," or Christian turned Mohammedan, became the most implacable foe of his former co-religionists.”

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“renegado," an attack which Coleridge did his best to parry by contributing articles to the _Courier_ on "Apostasy and Renegadoism”

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3

“-- [MS.G. erased.] [397] [The Spanish "renegado" and the Anglicized "renegade" were favourite terms of reprobation with politicians and others at the beginning of the century.”

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3