different between escapee vs renegade

English

Alternative forms

• escapée

Etymology

escape +? -ee

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s'k?-p?, IPA^(key): /?esk?pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

escapee (plural escapees)

1. Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
2. Someone who has escaped.
3. (botany) A plant that has escaped from cultivation.

Synonyms

• (someone who has escaped): escaper

Related terms

• escape

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???n???e?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n???e?d/

Noun

renegade (plural renegades)

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

Coordinate terms

• (disloyal person): apostate, defector, heretic, turncoat

Related terms

Translations

Verb

renegade (third-person singular simple present renegades, present participle renegading, simple past and past participle renegaded)

1. (dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
   • 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (volume 3, page 740)

     The recent arrangement, obtained by Lord Stratford, as to the case of a Christian renegading to Mohammedanism […]

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “renegade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary