renegade

renegade
    adj 1: having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had
           proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"
           [syn: {recreant}, {renegade}]
    n 1: someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
    2: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or
       religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: {deserter},
       {apostate}, {renegade}, {turncoat}, {recreant}, {ratter}]
    v 1: break with established customs [syn: {rebel}, {renegade}]
    

Renegade \Ren"e*gade\ (r?n"?-g?d), n. [Sp. renegado, LL.
   renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to
   deny. See {Negation}, and cf. {Runagate}.]
   One faithless to principle or party. Specifically:
   (a) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of
       religious faith.
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             James justly regarded these renegades as the most
             serviceable tools that he could employ. --Macaulay.
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   (b) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a
       deserter. --Arbuthnot.
   (c) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "renegade":
      Sabbath-breaker, apostate, apostatize, atheist, atheistic,
      backslider, backsliding, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter,
      collaborationist, collaborative, collaborator, convert, defect,
      defector, degenerate, desert, deserter, disloyal, faithless,
      fallen, fallen from grace, fifth columnist, heretic, heretical,
      iconoclast, impious, insurgent, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed,
      mugwump, perfidious, profanatory, profane, proselyte, quisling,
      rat, rebel, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegado, renegate,
      renege, reversionist, runagate, sacrilegious, sacrilegist,
      schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, strikebreaker,
      tergiversant, tergiversating, tergiversator, traitor, traitorous,
      treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turn against, turn traitor,
      turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, undutiful