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Synonyms for recreant

Grammar : Adj
Spell : rek-ree-uhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ri ənt

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for recreant

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