Associations to the word «Renegade»

Wiktionary

RENEGADE, noun. An outlaw or rebel.
RENEGADE, noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.

Dictionary definition

RENEGADE, noun. Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw.
RENEGADE, noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..
RENEGADE, verb. Break with established customs.
RENEGADE, adjective. Having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats