renegade

Etymology

From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegātus, perfect participle of renegō (“I deny”). See also renege.

noun

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

verb

  1. (dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
    The recent arrangement, obtained by Lord Stratford, as to the case of a Christian renegading to Mohammedanism […] 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, volume 3, page 740

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