refugitive

Pertaining to refuge.

Adjective

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. - 1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197:
- 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. - 2002, Syed Abdul Latif, Ghalib:...
- 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. - 2005,...

From refuge + -ive.

A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.
- 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...
- '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...
- 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). - 2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays...

Blend of refugee + fugitive.