different between refugee vs renegade

English

Etymology

From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge”), describing early French Protestants seeking refuge after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fj?d?i?/, /??fj??d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

refugee (plural refugees)

1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
2. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.
3. A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
4. (by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.
   • 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)

     Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.

Derived terms

• rapefugee
• reffo
• refugeehood
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)

1. (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

See also

• asylum
• citizenshipless
• countryless
• economic asylum
• nationless
• political asylum
• refoulement
• refuge

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