Word Meanings - RUNAGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.
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- FUGITIVELY
In a fugitive manner. - RUNAGATE
A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare. - APOSTATE
One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - WRETCHEDLY
In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable. - VAGABONDISM
Vagabondage. - VAGABONDIZE
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness. - RENEGADE
One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military - FUGITIVENESS
The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability. - WRETCH
wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy - VAGABONDRY
Vagabondage. - VAGABOND
1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond - WRETCHFUL
Wretched. Wyclif. - WRETCHEDNESS
1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer. - FUGITIVE
1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. The fugitive Parthians follow. Shak. Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in - WRETCHLESS
Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster. - WRETCHED
1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the - TRANSFUGE; TRANSFUGITIVE
One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.