refugitive

English

Etymology 1

Blend of refugee +‎ fugitive

Noun

refugitive (plural refugitives)

1. A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.
   • 1979, William Lesueur & McKillop, William Lyon Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 366:

     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 ...

   • 2011, Mohammad Rafique-Al-Quraish, Dr. Bin Ladin, →ISBN, page 210:

     '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 ?'.

   • 2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel, →ISBN:

     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).

Etymology 2

From refuge +‎ -ive.

Adjective

refugitive (comparative more refugitive, superlative most refugitive)

1. Pertaining to refuge.
   • 1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197:

     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.

   • 2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib: a critical appreciation of his life & Urdu poetry, page 83:

     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.

   • 2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery:

     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.