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Renegade

adjective

Having deserted a cause or principle. Synonym: recreant. "Renegade supporters of the usurper"

noun

Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw.

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.. Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat.

verb

Break with established customs. Synonym: rebel.

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"Renegade" Quotes from Famous Books

... Byron introduce these frightful images? Was it in contrast to the exquisite moonlight scene which tempts the renegade out of his tent? Was it to bring his mind into a fit condition to be worked upon by the vision of Francesca? It does but mar and untune the softening influences of nature, which might have been rendered more ...

— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude

... went on slowly, "They say that El Hassan is in truth a renegade citizen of a far away Roumi land and that he attempts to build a great confederation in North Africa ...

— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... fighting for his ship? Like Horatius, he glanced up at the hill, where, instead of the porch of the home where he would fain have been, he beheld a wisp of a girl standing alone, her hat on the back of her head, her hair flying in the wind, gazing intently down at him in his danger. The renegade crew was nowhere to be seen. There are those who demand the presence of a woman in order to ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... on hospitality—all part of a scheme to throw the guilt on some one else, worthy of a renegade ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... dogma of the French people. He proposed that Decadi should be converted into a new Sabbath; he caused the dregs of the Hebertists, including Gobel, to be indicted for {211} atheism when their turn came for the Revolutionary Tribunal. Robespierre sending a renegade Archbishop of Paris to the scaffold for atheism marks how very far the Revolution had moved since the days of ...

— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston

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