(often used as an adjective 常用作形容词 a person who leaves one political, religious, etc. group to join another that has very different views 变节者；叛徒；背叛者；叛教者 a renegade priest 叛教的牧师 There was no place for a communist renegade in the political climate of the time. 在当时的政治气候下，共产主义叛徒没有立足之地。
a person who opposes and lives outside a group or society that they used to belong to 叛逆者
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Spanish renegado, from medieval Latin renegatus ‘renounced’, past participle (used as a noun) of renegare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + Latin negare ‘deny’.