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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.

 

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