different between renegade vs thievery

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

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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

English

Etymology

From thieve +? -ery. Compare Old Frisian deverie ("thievery; theft"; > West Frisian dieverij; Saterland Frisian Däiweräi), Dutch dieverij (“thievery”), German Low German Deveree (“thievery; theft”), German Dieberei (“thievery”), Danish tyveri (“thievery; theft; larceny”), Swedish tjuveri (“thievery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?v.(?)?.i/

Noun

thievery (plural thieveries)

1. The act of theft, the act of stealing.

   This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.

2. (obsolete) That which is stolen.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, IV. iv. 42:

     Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;