recreant

Plural: recreants

Noun

• A coward; one who is disloyal or unfaithful.
• an abject coward
• a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
• Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Adjective Satellite

• having deserted a cause or principle
  • "some provinces had proved recreant"
• lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; ; ; - Spenser
  • "this recreant knight"

Adj

• Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
• Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Examples

• A recreant player might resign from a game rather than face a certain loss.

Synonyms

apostate, craven, deserter, poltroon, ratter, renegade, turncoat, coward

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