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Renegade

adjective

Having deserted a cause or principle. Synonym: recreant. "Renegade supporters of the usurper"

noun

Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw.

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.. Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat.

verb

Break with established customs. Synonym: rebel.

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"Renegade" Quotes from Famous Books

... I hate the Orangemen for what they did to me and mine, but at least they've been Protestant since the time of Henry VIII. But the lad inside there has no business to be a Protestant. The Lord intended him for a Catholic—and he knows it. He's a renegade. I don't blame you for being a Protestant, Matt. It's none ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... job, then!" he bellowed. "Saunders was a fool. I told him to get down next the trail and make a good job of it. I told him to kill you, you lying, renegade Injun—and if he couldn't, I can! Yuh WILL ...

— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... cried Striker, "there ain't nobody as would take you fer an outlaw. You ain't cut out fer a renegade. We know 'em the minute we lay eyes on 'em. Same as we know a Pottawatomy Injin from a Shawnee, er a jack-knife from a Bowie. No, there ain't no doubt in my mind about you bein' your father's son—an' heir, as the sayin' goes. If you turn out to be a scalawag, I'll never trust ...

— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

... be the adviser and inspirer of all the acts of his Excellency, the Captain-General—just consider the presence there of these pillars sine quibus non of the country, seated there in agreeable discourse, showing little sympathy for a renegade Filipina who dyed her hair red! Now wasn't this enough to exhaust the patience of a female Job—a sobriquet Dona Victorina always applied to herself when put out ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... other of the immortals; so great a helper am I to thee. Go to now, at Ares first guide thou thy whole-hooved horses, and smite him hand to hand, nor have any awe of impetuous Ares, raving here, a curse incarnate, the renegade that of late in converse with me and Hera pledged him to fight against the Trojans and give succour to the Argives, but now consorteth with the Trojans and ...

— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

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