renegado
Americannoun
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renegados
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of renegado
Borrowed into English from Spanish around 1590–1600
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The renegado had lived so long on the island that its customs were quite familiar; and I much lamented that, from the shortness of our stay, he could not tell us more than he did.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
Mr. White again endeavors to find support in the fact that Armado and renegado are spelt Armatho and renegatho in the Folio.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
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.
From Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean by E. Hamilton Currey
A young French renegado confessed to Châteaubriand, that he never found himself alone, galloping in the desert, without a sensation approaching to rapture which was indescribable.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Soon afterwards there came off an Italian renegado, well dressed, with a similar message, and to know if we had the Grand Signior's pass.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
The latter, eager, like all renegados, to show devotion to his newly-adopted creed, volunteered to return with the courtier and have a tilt of words with the testy diplomatist.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Sullen visions are now upon the clouds, to which place-hunters and renegados are afraid to lift their terrified eyes.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
It is generally thought these fires were raised by some base renegados who lurk about the town, and who came from Miaco: Yet, though much suspected, no proof has hitherto been brought against them.
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