different between misbeliever vs renegade

English

Etymology

From Middle English misbilevere, equivalent to misbelieve +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?sb??liv?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?sb??li?v?/

Noun

misbeliever (plural misbelievers)

1. Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
   • , II.12:

     We are placed in the country […] where we feare the menaces wherewith she threatneth all mis-beleevers, or follow her promises.

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