Definitions
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- n. Archaic form of renegade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See renegade.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as renegade.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"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
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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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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".
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"renegado," an attack which Coleridge did his best to parry by contributing articles to the _Courier_ on "Apostasy and Renegadoism"
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-- [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.
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