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
"Nay, no runagate; he goes too slow ever to run," said Don Jordy.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It suits Verres to pretend to disbelieve this, and to declare that the man is a runagate slave.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
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