ADJECTIVE
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lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
the craven fellow turned and ran
this recreant knight
a craven proposal to raise the white flag -
having deserted a cause or principle
some provinces had proved recreant
renegade supporters of the usurper
NOUN
- an abject coward
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
How To Use recreant In A Sentence
- some provinces had proved recreant
- I think I am a coward, a recreant and a fool. Even now I don't know how to react when he shows me his eyes and grin.
- Each bell that tolled rung out, ‘Shame on the recreant caitiff!’ The Fair Maid of Perth
- ‘Where is this recreant knight?’ said Francesca.
- But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
- Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again?
- The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels.
- A Spanish soldier is represented dragging a fugitive Indian from a lake by a lasso around his neck; while on the shore stands a monk ready to baptize the recreant on his arrival!” [ Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
- After an hour (comical bassoon solos over close-ups of the old recreant guzzling some horrible fermented potato-mash lobotomy out of a jerrican, wiping her mouth on her sleeve, belching) of fruitless search, our modern-day pirates head out to sea again, and up the eastern coast of the island. Gravity's Rainbow
- As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant.
