A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.
Defeated in 1836, a rebel and a refugitive in 1837, an exile struggling with misfortune and, at the best, uncongenial conditions for a long term of years, Mackenzie was not only restored to Canada, but again had a constituency at his back and ...1979, William Lesueur & McKillop, William Lyon Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 366:
'I don't want him for any good reason except to grab a cheque of twenty five^([sic]) millions^([sic]) dollar^([sic]) from president Bush's award as refugitive wanted by him for raising a Jihad against the american^([sic]) interest for oil in Middle East ?',said he and added further , 'do you know Monsieur Duval and I don't agree with their policy of violent and warmongering in an escalation instead of diplomacy and peaceful resorts for compromise as I had mentioned with Monsieur general Alexis and Mushraff also ?'.2011, Mohammad Rafique-Al-Quraish, Dr. Bin Ladin, →ISBN, page 210:
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She then continues with her own private reveries about being mistaken for African when she was in Canada and “them old slaves refugitives and them new African refugees” (34).2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel, →ISBN:
refugitive
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Etymology From refuge + -ive.
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Pertaining to refuge.
The settlements of a refugitive nature (2a) are hard to be determined. First of all they were conditioned by the occasional refugitive needs of the people and their property.1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197:
There, in their several worlds, they find the harmony which they so sorely miss in the midst of mankind. Poetry, which embodies such refugitive attitude, is called the poetry of refuge.2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib: a critical appreciation of his life & Urdu poetry, page 83:
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Such refugitive Sounds were created and heard in juke joints and sharecropping fields—and in the fields of antebellum slavery well before white folklorists and record industry scouts “discovered” black culture.2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery: