renegado
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renegados
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Etymology
Origin of renegado
Borrowed into English from Spanish around 1590–1600
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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
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)
While the veteran Taric was making his wide circuit through the land, an expedition under Magued the renegado proceeded against the city of Cordova.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
To this I may add the city or Teyes, near which there is a leskar of thirty or forty thousand soldiers, commanded by a German renegado under the pacha of Sinan.
Driven into a bastion of the walls, a party of the corsairs were desperately defending themselves, when one Baetio, a Spanish renegado, discovered that a cannon behind them pointing seawards was loaded.
From Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean by Currey, E. Hamilton
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 Irving, Washington
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 Hamilton, Lady Anne
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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