"refugitive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, William Lesueur & McKillop, William Lyon Mackenzie, page 366",
          "text": "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 ...",
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          "text": "'I don't want him for any good reason except to grab a cheque of twenty five millions dollar from president Bush's award as refugitive wanted by him for raising a Jihad against the american 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 ?'.",
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          "ref": "2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib: a critical appreciation of his life & Urdu poetry, page 83",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib: a critical appreciation of his life & Urdu poetry, page 83",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery",
          "text": "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.",
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