Recreant

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  • adjective. Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause.
  • adjective. Craven or cowardly.
  • noun. A faithless or disloyal person.
  • noun. A coward.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Ready to yield in fight; acknowledging defeat; hence, craven; cowardly. Compare craven.
  • Unfaithful to duty; betraying trust.
  • noun. One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a meanspirited, cowardly, or unfaithful wretch.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
  • adjective. Apostate; false; unfaithful.
  • noun. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. disloyal, unfaithful, surrendering allegiance.
  • adjective. cowardly, craven
  • noun. Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an abject coward
  • noun. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
  • adjective. having deserted a cause or principle
  • adjective. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
    • Word Usage
    "He whom thou hast called recreant knight, has been Saxon host."
    Equivalent
    cowardly  disloyal  fearful  
    Form
    recreance  recreancy  recreantly  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coward  quitter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    craven  dastard  dastardly  disloyal  doughty  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Sabbath-breaker  apostate  apostate  arrant coward  atheist  
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