recreant

/'rekriənt/
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recreant

A recreant knight fled the battlefield.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Abjectly cowardly; lacking courage: Describes someone who is extremely fearful and shows a complete absence of bravery.
    • Disloyal; deserting a cause or principle: Describes someone who betrays or abandons their allegiance, faith, or duty.

  2. Noun:

    • A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, party, or friend: Refers to a traitor or renegade.
    • An abject coward: Refers to a person who is utterly lacking in courage.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The recreant soldier threw down his weapon and fled from the battle.
    • His recreant behavior, abandoning his comrades, shocked everyone.
  • Noun:
    • History remembers him as a recreant who switched sides for personal gain.
    • Do not trust him; he is a recreant who will desert you in times of trouble.
Advanced Usage
  • "Proved recreant": This formal phrase describes a person or group that has demonstrated disloyalty or cowardice.
    • Several allies proved recreant when their support was most needed.
  • Used in literary or historical contexts to convey strong condemnation for betrayal or cowardice.
Variants and Related Words
  • Recreancy (n): The state or quality of being recreant; cowardice or disloyalty.
    • His recreancy was a stain on the family's honor.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (Cowardly): Craven, dastardly, pusillanimous, timid.
  • Adjective (Disloyal): Treacherous, traitorous, perfidious, renegade, apostate.
  • Noun (Traitor): Turncoat, betrayer, defector, renegade, apostate.
  • Noun (Coward): Poltroon, dastard, craven.
Antonyms
  • Adjective (Cowardly): Brave, courageous, valiant, heroic.
  • Adjective (Disloyal): Loyal, faithful, staunch, steadfast.
  • Noun (Traitor): Loyalist, patriot, adherent.
  • Noun (Coward): Hero, stalwart.
recreant

A recreant knight fled the battlefield.

Adjective
  1. 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
  2. having deserted a cause or principle
    • some provinces had proved recreant
    • renegade supporters of the usurper
Noun
  1. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
  2. an abject coward

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