renegade |ˈrenəˌɡād|
noun
a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.
• a person who behaves in a rebelliously unconventional manner.
• archaic a person who abandons religion; an apostate.
adjective
having treacherously changed allegiance: a renegade bodyguard.
• archaic having abandoned one's religious beliefs: a renegade monk.
ORIGIN
late 15th century: from Spanish renegado, from medieval Latin renegatus ‘renounced,’ past participle (used as a noun) of renegare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + Latin negare ‘deny.’
renege |riˈneɡriˈniɡ| (also renegue)
verb [no object]
go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract: the administration had reneged on its election promises.
• another term for revoke ( sense 2).
• [with object] archaic renounce or abandon (someone or something).
DERIVATIVES
reneger noun
ORIGIN
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘desert (especially a faith or a person)’): from medieval Latin renegare, from Latin re- (expressing intensive force) + negare ‘deny.’
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