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Fugitive vs Fleme - What's the difference?

fugitive | fleme |

As nouns the difference between fugitive and fleme

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while fleme is one who is banished; an exile; outcast; fugitive.

As an adjective fugitive

is fleeing or running away.

As a verb fleme is

to drive away, chase off; to banish.

fugitive

English

(wikipedia fugitive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“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—!”

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain

    • fleme

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who is banished; an exile; outcast; fugitive.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) flemen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (flem)
  • (label) To drive away, chase off; to banish.
  • *, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxviij:
  • *:Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.