renegade

  • 1Renegade — may refer to:*Renegade (Middle Ages), a term for a fallen Christian or a knight without allegiance. From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegatus, perfect participle of renego deny . See also: Ronin. In music: * Green Renegade , a… …

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  • 2Renegade — (engl. Abtrünniger, Überläufer, Renegat) steht für ursprünglich einen Abtrünnigen einer Religion, heutzutage auch verallgemeinert einen Abtrünnigen eines Glaubens oder Wertesystems, siehe Renegat Verkehr Renegade (Luftfahrt), die Verwendung eines …

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  • 3Renegade — (видеоигра) Command Conquer: Renegade (компьютерная игра) Renegade (альбом)  музыкальный альбом шведской группы HammerFall Ренегат (фильм)  фильм 1987 г. (Италия, жанр: боевик, комедия, приключения) Renegade: Fighting Cage… …

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  • 4renegade — renegade, apostate, turncoat, recreant, backslider are strongly derogatory terms denoting a person who forsakes his faith or party, a cause, or an allegiance, and aligns himself with another. Renegade, originally applied to a Christian who became …

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  • 5renegade — [adj] rebellious apostate, backsliding, disloyal, dissident, heterodox, mutinous, outlaw, radical, reactionary, rebel, recreant, revolutionary, runaway, schismatic, traitorous, unfaithful, untraditional; concepts 401,542 Ant. obedient, passive,… …

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  • 6renegade — [ren′ə gād΄] n. [Sp renegado, pp. of renegar, to deny < ML renegare < L re , again + negare, to deny (see NEGATION); the word replaces ME renagat < ML renegatus, pp. of renegare] 1. a person who abandons one religion for another;… …

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  • 7Renegade — Ren e*gade (r?n ? g?d), n. [Sp. renegado, LL. renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re re + negare to deny. See {Negation}, and cf. {Runagate}.] One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: (a) An apostate from Christianity or from any… …

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  • 8renegade — index fugitive, insurgent, malcontent, pariah, recreant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 9renegade — 1580s, apostate, probably (with change of suffix) from Sp. renegado, originally Christian turned Muslim, from M.L. renegatus, prop. pp. of renegare deny (see RENEGE (Cf. renege)). General sense of turncoat is from 1660s. The form renegate,… …

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  • 10renegade — ► NOUN ▪ a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having treacherously changed allegiance. ORIGIN Spanish renegado, from Latin renegare renounce …

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