Associations to the word «Recreant»

Wiktionary

RECREANT, adjective. (now rare) (poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated. [from 13th c.]
RECREANT, adjective. (now poetic) (literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. [from 17th c.]
RECREANT, noun. Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.

Dictionary definition

RECREANT, noun. An abject coward.
RECREANT, noun. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..
RECREANT, adjective. Having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper".
RECREANT, adjective. Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser.

Wise words

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon