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runagate

[ ruhn-uh-geyt ]

noun

  1. a fugitive or runaway.
  2. a vagabond or wanderer.


runagate

/ ˈrʌnəˌɡeɪt /

noun

  1. archaic.
    1. a vagabond, fugitive, or renegade
    2. ( as modifier )

      a runagate priest

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of runagate1

1520–30; run (v.) + obsolete agate away; sense influenced by obsolete renegate ( Middle English renegat < Medieval Latin renegātus renegade )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of runagate1

C16: variant (influenced by run ) of renegade
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Example Sentences

Bettina Scott, who lives with her odd, controlling mother, is at the center of a number of family mysteries in her village of Runagate, a place where you’ll find “roses planted in wire-fenced gardens on the buried corpses of roadside kangaroos.”

His great-great-great-grandfather Scipio, a runaway slave, intended to escape from Kentucky alone but wound up trying to help another runagate, a pregnant woman named Abby, cross the Ohio River.

The last work on the program was also the most impressive: “Runagate, Runagate,” by Wendell Logan, sets Robert Hayden’s flamboyant poem about a runaway slave to music of wild ferocity, sobriety, eeriness and mordant wit.

"Well, I must say Marmaduke might have remembered that he had other relatives besides that runagate son," grumbled the squire.

The room, stiflingly close, lay in semi-darkness; on the bed sprawled the young runagate, dead asleep, his arms tossed wide.

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