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Definition of Renegade

1. Adjective. Having deserted a cause or principle. "Renegade supporters of the usurper"

2. Verb. Break with established customs.

3. Noun. Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw.

4. Noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..

Definition of Renegade

1. n. One faithless to principle or party.

Definition of Renegade

1. Noun. An outlaw or rebel. ¹

2. Noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Renegade

1. to become a traitor [v -GADED, -GADING, -GADES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Renegade

renditioned renditioning renditions rendre rendred rendres rendrest rendreth rendring rendrock

rendryng rendrynge rends rendzina rendzinas renegade (current term) renegade state renegaded renegades renegading

renegado renegadoes renegados renegate renegates renegation renegations renege renege on reneged

Literary usage of Renegade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly (1893)
"JMG The fact renegade Indians existed, prima facie presupposes their ill- ... It is known that several of the renegade neophytes became locally celebrated. ..."

2. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1853)
"... THE renegade BLA' £f'OOT. IF the meekness and long-suffering of the ... This was a Blackfoot renegade, ..."

3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... the renegade Blackfoot, had recovered from the wound received in battle; and with his strength revived all his deadly hostility to his native tribe. ..."

4. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"The Princess, whose amour with Vitelli has brought them both to prison, turns Christian, and in the upshot all escape in the galley of the contrite renegade ..."

5. The History of Idaho by John Hailey (1910)
"They were called the renegade Sheep-Eater Indians, and numbered about one hundred, About the 02nd of May, 1879, a party of these Indians made a raid on Mr. ..."

6. The History of Idaho by John Hailey (1910)
"They were called the renegade Sheep-Eater Indians, and numbered about one hundred, About the 22nd of May, 1879, a party of these Indians made a raid on Mr. ..."

7. The Portfolio edited by David Urquhart (1843)
"renegade DECAPITATED AT CONSTANTINOPLE. THE minds of our countrymen have been somewhat agitated, by the recent execution of an Armenian renegade at ..."

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