renegade
noun/ˈrenɪɡeɪd/
/ˈrenɪɡeɪd/
(formal, disapproving)- (often used as an adjective) a person who leaves one political, religious, etc. group to join another that has very different views
- a renegade priest
- There was no place for a communist renegade in the political climate of the time.
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- a person who opposes and lives outside a group or society that they used to belong to synonym outlaw
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Spanish renegado, from medieval Latin renegatus ‘renounced’, past participle (used as a noun) of renegare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + Latin negare ‘deny’.
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