Meaning of runagate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A deserter, renegade or apostate.
2. A fugitive; a runaway.

Examples

“And being in this doubt⟳ the Runagate came to us, asking upon what we ſtaid, for it was now high time to be going away, and all, his Moors were careleſs, and the greater number⟳ of them aſleep.”

“1850, John Johnson (translator), A Collection of the Laws and Canons of the Church of England, Volume 1, New Edition, page 165, Whatever brother, contrary to the prohibition of the venerable canons, receives a runagate clerk or monk, without pacific letters, and when convened obstinately persists in it, let⟳ him pay⟳ what is appointed, viz., thirty sicles; fifteen to the bishop, fifteen to the abbot whose monk he received without consent of his own⟳ prior. Let⟳ him dismiss the runagate, or be excommunicate, and run⟳ the risk⟳ of paying more.”

“The runagate or renegade slave travels the freedom train⟳ toward the mythic North and beyond ("first stop⟳ Mercy and the last⟳ Hallelujah").”

“If there were real reason⟳ for apprehension he would follow⟳ the runagate to the Continent, but he would not do this without absolute knowledge.”

“But Nemesis was approaching the aged runagate[.]”

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