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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ronin  \Ro"nin"\,  n.  [Jap.  r[=o]-nin,  fr  Chin.  lang  profligate, 
  lawless  +  j[^e]n  (old  sound  n[=i]n)  man.] 
  In  Japan,  under  the  feudal  system,  a  samurai  who  had 
  renounced  his  clan  or  who  had  been  discharged  or  ostracized 
  and  had  become  a  wanderer  without  a  lord;  an  outcast;  an 
  outlaw. 

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