Sekirov Dictionary

recreant

UK /ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/US /ˈɹɛkɹiənt/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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(literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
- Who, for so many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false, / And so of all true good himself despoil'd, […] — 1671
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(literary, no longer used) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
- For, from the day that he thus did it leave, / Amongst all Knights he blotted was with blame, / And counted but a recreant Knight with endles shame. — 1596

noun1

Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

forms

recreants · more recreant · most recreant

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