How To Use Recreant In A Sentence
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some provinces had proved recreant
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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.
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Each bell that tolled rung out, ‘Shame on the recreant caitiff!’
The Fair Maid of Perth
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‘Where is this recreant knight?’ said Francesca.
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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
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Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again?
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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.
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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
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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
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As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant.
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“But, certes,” said he, “the foul paynim met his match; for, ever as he foined at me with his brand, I parried his blows with my bauble, and closing with him upon the third veny, threw him to the ground, and made him cryrecreant to an unarmed man.”
Waverley
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thing-in-itself"; not knowing what these words mean, you are ignorant and recreant to the truth; _knowing_ what they mean, you tug no more at the veil.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
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For he did not dare give battle to our King of England; but, like a coward and a recreant knight, he made a lady, the Countess of Henaud, his messenger to come to our King and his Council, and pray that he would cease, and no more spill the blood of Christians or destroy their goods.
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It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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If her conduct was forward, well, her connubial expectations had been dashed by the recreant Popplewell, and the arrival of Flashy with whiskers rampant must have seemed like the answer to a randy young matron's prayer.
THE NUMBERS
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Could he be blamed as recreant if he had helped his unexpected ally to break out and return to his prince?
His Disposition
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He whom thou hast called recreant knight, has been Saxon host.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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There was something about this kindness of her old disapprover which touched her deeply, and moved her to weakness more than had the sight of her recreant love with another girl.
The Portion of Labor
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this recreant knight
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What a cause for rejoicing would it be then, if the proper degree of 'impressibility' were general with those who have failing and recreant teeth, that the dentist and his magnetiser might be one and indivisible?
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
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And if they shall think as I do, that the extension of slavery endangers them more than any or all other causes, how recreant to themselves if they submit The question, and with it the fate of their country, to a mere handful of men bent only on seif-interest.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
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The chief fallacy appears to be this - that he insists that the race must always count for more than the individual, and that the individual must fall in line and step with the average conventions of the race at the expense of his own well-being, or be judged a deserter and a recreant.
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“The last innocent has suffered at your hands, recreant,” grimly intoned THE WRAITH.
Masked
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“But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse.”
Westward Ho!
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One sees immediately that “recreant” was an inspired choice, because while it denotes a villain (the fire), the eye quickly parses the word into re and creant, re-believing, re-creating, re-crescent.
Tourbillon : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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They told me he was a recreant and a coward, but I knew it was false.
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a 'recreant' -- just what needs the slight punishment of instant death to the remarker -- and ... where is the way?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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A mosaic of images depicting your chronic laziness, unearned ego, and recreant cruelty.
Mare
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recreant," had he wavered when the descendant of Mary Stuart claimed his services.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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Any whitewashing on the part of the committee, or any attempt to "let down easy" a man who has been so recreant to a great public trust, cannot fail to have a serious effect upon the fortunes of the men responsible for it, and upon any political party that may, through its control of legislative action, uphold them in such a course.
