fugitive

CEFRC1

/ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/

noun · adjective

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Examples

I was on the alert for a fugitive criminal.
The fugitive surfaced in a small town fifty miles from here but then disappeared again.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.

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In context

I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.

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I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.
1864, J. B. Greenshields, Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow, page 116

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From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.