different between recusant vs renegade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rec?sans, rec?s?ntis, from rec?s? (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj?z?nt/

Noun

recusant (plural recusants)

1. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Synonyms

• papist

Related terms

• recuse
• recusancy
• refusenik

Translations

Adjective

recusant

1. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
   • 1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition:

     Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.

Anagrams

• Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, near cuts, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces

Latin

Verb

rec?sant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rec?s?

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