Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as renegade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See renegade.

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  • noun Archaic form of renegade.

Etymologies

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Spanish

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Examples

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

    The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Daniel Defoe 1696

  • 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.

    Sadly, No! 2008

  • 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."

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • "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.'"

    Codename POTUS - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • 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."

    On Dictionaries 1969

  • 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."

    On Dictionaries 1924

  • 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.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Although the "renegado" was very much in evidence in the vessels of the

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

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

    unknown title 2008

  • "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 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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