renegado
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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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An English renegado at Algiers, who had turned Mohammedan and had become an overseer in the pirates' shipyards.
From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Philip Gosse
The renegado perceived it, and sought not to slay him, but to take him alive.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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
Besides their chiefs and some Canadians, they were aided by the counsels of the two Girtys, and McKee, renegado whites.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint
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 John G. (John George) Edgar
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.
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
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