recreant in English

adjective
1
cowardly.
what a recreant figure must he make
2
unfaithful to a belief; apostate.
Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again?
noun
1
a coward.
As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant .
2
a person who is unfaithful to a belief; an apostate.
Wordsworth compares himself to a truant, a false steward, a recreant , when he does not write poetry, when poetic numbers fail to come spontaneously, when his harp is defrauded and the singer ends in silence.

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1. 1 Some provinces had proved recreant.

2. 8 Then Gemma, the girl Arthur loved, mistook Arthurfor the recreant.

3. 2 Why are some people very recreant can still you like to see horror piece?

4. 6 How does ability let him become brave firm and bold have self-confidence, no longer so cowardly and recreant incapacity ?

5. 7 He does not listen unluckily, must oneself go him caries recreant , must make help a person greatly.

6. 5 After why liking her, what dare often do, but afterthething goes, do not feel how recreant again however. ?

7. Demetrius sent him in 161 BCE to Judea with a large army, in order to invest the recreant Alcimus with the office of high priest (I Macc. vii.

8. 3 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.

9. The speaker, who was the father of the recreant young Indian, looked round and about him, as if seeking commendation of his stoicism in the eyes of the Auditors

10. 4 What Zhao Benshan describes Fan Wei is recreant, a leaf falls down to be afraid of break in the end, fan Wei also admits, oneself are overcautious Guo Xiaosheng's living person.

11. Coward: 1 n a person who shows fear or timidity Types: show 9 types hide 9 types cur a Cowardly and despicable person dastard a despicable Coward craven , poltroon , recreant an abject Coward quaker , trembler one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear shrinking violet , shy person someone who shrinks from familiarity with others