renegado
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of renegado
Borrowed into English from Spanish around 1590–1600
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Affairs stood thus, when a renegado Christian informed the sultan how he might bring part of his fleet over land to the very haven of Constantinople.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 by Various
Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay in moral geography; Their loyal treason, renegado rigour, Are good manure for their more bare biography.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
He said that Davis, another renegado, would also have been put to death, had it not been for the intercession of his wife.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
This Mufti, in my conscience, is some English renegado, he talks so savourily of toping.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Suppose I returned to it and had to go back to France, I should assuredly suffer great poverty, and be continually reproached all my days, and be called "Renegado! renegado!"
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by Edgar, John G. (John George)
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