refugitive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.

   • 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).
2. 2

   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.
   • 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.

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