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renegade

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Definition

a traitor, rebel or outlaw

or:

someone who is independent and unconventional is their outlook

renegade soldiers stole the supplies

renegade = rebel or outlaw

turned renegade and renounced his faith
She was once considered a renegade in her industry, but today is recognized as a visionary leader.
He was the eternal renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas — simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument.
Richard Corliss -- Time, 2006 -- http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1562162,00.html (retrieved 01/21/10)
The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (people rebelling against an established government)

we been told we can bring in renegades like you alive or dead.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet

renegades = traitors, rebels or outlaws

He came to be the most cruel renegade I ever saw:
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

renegade = a traitor, rebel or outlaw

As the renegade slashed and hacked at Redd's soldiers, the slave workers were able to flee across the plain into the Everlasting Forest.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)

A burning dormitory illuminated the renegade's face: handsome and rugged, with four parallel scars visible on his right cheek.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)

It was this renegade who broke away from the cover of the other rebels at the Battle of Blaxik.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)

If this renegade didn't always mix with his rebel brethren, if he kept to himself when not engaged in battle, at least he was on their side.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)

One by one, the renegade aimed the point of his blade at the soldiers' upper chests, their single vulnerable spot (a medallion-sized area above the breastplate, at the base of the steel-tendoned neck); a direct hit cut through vital inner workings and sent sparks flying, killing them.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)

Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.
George Orwell -- 1984

renegade = traitor

Oh, I have been base, cowardly, I tell you; I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades I am of evil omen to those who surround me!
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
This is generally a requirement for renegade fertility deities.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
We assemble in parks and halls and sedulously oppose any renegade (Neville, Louis, Rhoda) who sets up a separate existence.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
No faith do I owe to a renegade, And what I owe shall now be paid.
T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
[3] Not one had been a renegade, to help the Saracens at the siege of Acre in 1291.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
"Sam," says Bill, "I suppose you'll think I'm a renegade, but I couldn't help it.
O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
He was a renegade but a Catholic just the same.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night

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