renegade
pronunciation
How to pronounce renegade in British English:
UK [ˈrenɪgeɪd]
How to pronounce renegade in American English:
US [ˈrɛnɪˌɡed]
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- 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.
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- Verb:
- break with established customs
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- Adjective:
- having deserted a cause or principle
Word Origin
- renegade
- renegade: [16] A renegade is etymologically a ‘denier’. The word is an anglicization of Spanish renegado, a term picked up via Anglo-Hispanic contact at the end of the 16th century and itself quite commonly used in English until the 18th century. Renegado itself comes from medieval Latin renegātus, a noun use of the past participle of Latin renegāre ‘deny’ (source of English renegue [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix re- and negāre ‘deny’ (source of English deny [13] and negative [14]).=> deny, negative, renegue
- renegade (n.)
- 1580s, "apostate," probably (with change of suffix) from Spanish renegado, originally "Christian turned Muslim," from Medieval Latin renegatus, noun use of past participle of renegare "deny" (see renege). General sense of "turncoat" is from 1660s. The form renegate, directly from Medieval Latin, is attested in English from late 14c. As an adjective from 1705.
Example
- 1. They presumably fear jeopardising the stability of their renegade ally .
- 2. They disrupted the transfer of arms to the biggest renegade , george athor .
- 3. The announcement will do little to help canada 's growing reputation as an international renegade on the climate .
- 4. It has even been suggested that the sinking may have been a maverick act a power play by a renegade military commander within north korea .
- 5. Friedman has cultivated an image of a maverick , a renegade scientist brave enough to tell the world what he knows about flying saucers .