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Definition of recreantly in English English dictionary
- in a cowardly way, fearfully; disloyally, unfaithfully
- recreant
- a cowardly or faithless person
- recreant
- {n} a false wretch, apostate, miser
- recreant
- {a} cowardly, meanspirited, false, base
- recreant
- having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper
- recreant
- Disloyal, unfaithful, surrendering allegiance
- recreant
- Cowardly, craven
- recreant
- 1 cowardly or craven 2 unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous (The Random House College Dictionary)
- recreant
- having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"
- recreant
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc
- recreant
- an abject coward
- recreant
- One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch
- recreant
- is one who cries out (French, récrier); alluding to the judicial combats, when the person who wished to give in cried for mercy, and was held a coward and infamous (See Craven )
- recreant
- Apostate; false; unfaithful
- recreant
- {i} coward, fearful person; traitor, disloyal person, unfaithful person
- recreant
- is one who cries out (French, récrier); alluding to the judicial combats, when the person who wished to give in cried for mercy, and was held a coward and infamous (See Craven )
- recreant
- Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted
- recreant
- 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
- recreant
- 1 cowardly or craven 2 unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous
- recreant
- Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven
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