recreant
11recreant — A disloyal person. One unmindful of duty. A coward. In the course of a trial by wager of battle, a champion was said to prove recreant when he yielded to his adversary and pronounced the horrible word of craven, which signified disgrace and… …
12recreant — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from present participle of (se) recreire to give up, yield, from Medieval Latin (se) recredere to resign oneself (to a judgment), from Latin re + credere to believe more at creed Date:… …
13recreant — recreance, recreancy, n. recreantly, adv. /rek ree euhnt/, adj. 1. cowardly or craven. 2. unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous. n. 3. a coward. 4. an apostate, traitor, or renegade. [1300 50; ME < OF, adj. and n. use of prp. of recreire to yield… …
14recreant — Synonyms and related words: Sabbath breaker, apostate, arrant coward, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, base, black sheep, blackguardly, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, caitiff, collaborationist, collaborative,… …
15recreant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cowardly, craven, dastardly, disloyal, false, treacherous; apostate, renegade. See cowardice, evildoer. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cowardly, craven, false, base, low, mean spirited, faithless,… …
16recreant — rec·re·ant || rekrɪənt n. coward, fearful person; traitor, disloyal person, unfaithful person …
17recreant — I. a. 1. Cowardly, dastardly, base, craven, pusillanimous, mean spirited, faint hearted, yielding. 2. Apostate, treacherous, false, unfaithful, faithless, untrue, backsliding. II. n. 1. Coward, dastard. 2. Apostate, renegade, backslider …
18recreant — noun (C) old use someone who is disloyal and lacks courage …
19recreant — adj 1. cowardly, craven, dastardly, base, Archaic. niddering, Archaic. caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, nervous, fearful, afraid, scared, scary, frightened, afraid of one s shadow, cowering; spineless, weak, uncourageous, unmanly, weak… …
20recreant — rec·re·ant …
