runagate
Americannoun
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a fugitive or runaway.
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a vagabond or wanderer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of runagate
1520–30; run (v.) + obsolete agate away; sense influenced by obsolete renegate ( Middle English renegat < Medieval Latin renegātus renegade )
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name.
From Time Magazine Archive
A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a moment of uncertainty, still confronting the clicking camera, still bathed in that withering blaze, she cast about blankly for her runagate director.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
And I am quite ready to allow that in this state she will escape the delusions that make mock of mankind, and will have no temptations to play the runagate.
From The Well of Saint Clare by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)
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