refugitive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to refuge.
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "'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 ?'."
- "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)."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."