recreant, renegade
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter
(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
renegade
(noun) someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
rebel, renegade
(verb) break with established customs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
renegade (plural renegades)
An outlaw or rebel.
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
• (disloyal person): apostate, defector, heretic, turncoat
renegade (third-person singular simple present renegades, present participle renegading, simple past and past participle renegaded)
(dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
Source: Wiktionary
Ren"e*gade (rn"-gd), n. Etym: [Sp. renegado, LL. renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Negation, and cf. Runagate.]
Definition: One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: (a) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay.
(b) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. Arbuthnot. (c) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
