| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ren·e·gade |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r n  -g d |
| NOUN: | 1. One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter. 2. An outlaw; a rebel. | | ADJECTIVE: | Of, relating to, or resembling a renegade; traitorous. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ren·e·gad·ed, ren·e·gad·ing, ren·e·gades
To become a deserter or an outlaw. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegtus, past participle of renegre, to deny : Latin re-, re- + Latin negre, to deny; see ne in Appendix I.
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