Antonyms for recreant
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : rek-ree-uhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ri ənt |
Definition of recreant
Origin :- c.1300, "confessing oneself to be overcome or vanquished," from Old French recreant "defeated, vanquished, yielding, giving; weak, exhausted; cowardly," present participle adjective from recroire "to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance," literally "believe again;" perhaps on notion of "take back one's pledge, yield one's cause," from re- "again, back" (see re-) + croire "entrust, believe," from Latin credere (see credo).
- Non sufficit ... nisi dicat illud verbum odiosum, quod recreantus sit. [Bracton, c.1260]
- Meaning "cowardly" in English is from late 14c. Meaning "unfaithful to duty" is from 1640s.
- adj cowardly
- adj unfaithful
- With Peter Pan for company, Sophie waited on the porch for the recreant pair.
- Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
- "Why you should call him a recreant knight, I cannot for the life of me understand," she said.
- Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
- Nor would he come forth, for all that Sir Bors called him coward and recreant.
- Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
- The groomsmen are denouncing him, as he deserves to be, as a slanderer and recreant.
- Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
- Finding her so obstinate he had said to her in a loud voice, "Die, recreant!"
- Extract from : « The Trial of William Tinkling » by Charles Dickens
- I have no recreant heart to turn aside from danger or from suffering.
- Extract from : « The Phantom Ship » by Frederick Marryat
- Oh, Haco, that indeed were to be the traitor and the recreant!
- Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Is his thunderbolt ever at his hand to reduce a recreant god to order?
- Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope
- We condemn the man who neglects to vote as recreant to his duty.
- Extract from : « History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) » by Various
- The recreant Jews rejected the Savior, because He came to them with a new revelation.
- Extract from : « The Articles of Faith » by James E. Talmage
Synonyms for recreant
- afraid
- apostate
- arrant
- base
- cowardly
- cowering
- craven
- dastardly
- defecting
- disloyal
- faithless
- false
- falsehearted
- fearful
- frightened
- gutless
- hesitant
- low
- mean-spirited
- perfidious
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- scared
- skulking
- sneaking
- spiritless
- timid
- timorous
- traitorous
- treacherous
- unfaithful
- unmanly
- untrue
- vile
- yellow
- yielding
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