Runagate [noun]
Definition of Runagate:
defector
Synonyms of Runagate:
Opposite/Antonyms of Runagate:
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Sentence/Example of Runagate:
The sight of Hamish at a carriage-door guided her to her runagate son.
The wife of Cosimo d'Anguissola a runagate with her husband's cousin?
The Syrian runagate: perhaps I'm writing for nothing in trusting my letter to him.
Osberne stood up and said: "What hast thou been about, runagate?"
"Nay, no runagate; he goes too slow ever to run," said Don Jordy.
"Well, I must say Marmaduke might have remembered that he had other relatives besides that runagate son," grumbled the squire.
Such was indeed my intention up to the year 1785, when I found this runagate at Vienna.
Thou, false heretic and runagate, sayest that thou wilt not obey our General or Provincial Councils.
No runagate serf in medival Europe was more severely dealt with than the Congo native who dared to range afield.
To avert suspicion that he meant to become a runagate, Ralegh was ready not to command, but to ship as a private man.