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Definition of Recreant

1. Noun. An abject coward.

2. Adjective. Having deserted a cause or principle. "Renegade supporters of the usurper"

3. Noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..

4. Adjective. Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful. "This recreant knight"

Definition of Recreant

1. a. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

2. n. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.

Definition of Recreant

1. Adjective. disloyal, unfaithful, surrendering allegiance. ¹

2. Adjective. cowardly, craven ¹

3. Noun. Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recreant

1. a coward [n -S] - See also: coward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recreant

recrafting recrafts recrate recrated recrates recrating recrawl recrawled recrawling recrawls

recrayed recreance recreances recreancies recreancy recreant (current term) recreants recreate recreated recreates

recreatest recreateth recreating recreation facility recreation room recreational recreational drug recreational drugs recreational facility

Literary usage of Recreant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... this to be a figurative expression of the idea that the recreant Israelites after their probation of a long exile would " again seek Yahweh and David ..."

2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"TO A recreant AMERICAN. ["A Letter to Joseph Galloway, Esq." From the Same.] NOW that you have gained the summit of your ambitious hopes, the reward of your ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... and deserted the pledges which they had'given —though the South was apparently united to a unit against me, and recreant cravens from the North were ..."

4. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1819)
"... That they may break his foaming courser's back, And throw the rider headlong in the lists, A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford. Richard II. ..."

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