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cowardly or craven.
2.
unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous.
noun
3.
a coward.
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an apostate, traitor, or renegade.
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Recreant
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old French, adj. and noun use of present participle of recreire to yield in a contest, equivalent to re- re- + creire < Latin crēdere to believe
1300–50; Middle English < Old French, adj. and noun use of present participle of recreire to yield in a contest, equivalent to re- re- + creire < Latin crēdere to believe
Related forms
rec·re·ance, rec·re·an·cy, noun
rec·re·ant·ly, adverb
un·rec·re·ant, adjective
Synonyms
1. dastardly, pusillanimous, base, faint-hearted, yellow. 2. faithless, untrue, apostate. 3. dastard.
1. dastardly, pusillanimous, base, faint-hearted, yellow. 2. faithless, untrue, apostate. 3. dastard.
Antonyms
1. brave. 2. loyal. 3. hero.
1. brave. 2. loyal. 3. hero.
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Word Origin & History
recreant
c.1300 (adj.) "confessing oneself to be overcome or vanquished," from O.Fr. recreant "yielding, giving," prp. of recroire "to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance," perhaps on notion of "take back one's pledge, yield one's cause," from re- "again, back" + croire "entrust, believe," from L.
EXPANDcredere.
COLLAPSE
"Non sufficit ... nisi dicat illud verbum odiosum, quod recreantus sit." [Bracton, c.1260]Meaning "unfaithful to duty" is from 1643. Noun sense of "one who yields in combat, coward, faint-hearted person" is first recorded c.1400.
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