Recreant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECREANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a coward; an apostate
• a person who is unfaithful to a belief; an apostate.
• disloyal or cowardly person
• One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
• an abject coward
• a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
• a coward
ADJECTIVE:
• (archaic) cowardly, apostate
• unfaithful to a belief; apostate.
• Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
• Apostate; false; unfaithful.
• having deserted a cause or principle
• lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
• cowardly

Words related to RECREANT

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Words that contain RECREANT

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How to use RECREANT in a sentence

• You will have to forge an exceedingly strong chain to hold your own against the facts which have brought this recreant lover to book.
• Yet this vile recreant heart of mine plays me booty.
• The recreant bridegroom had taken the earliest opportunity to disappear, and was seen no more in Vevev during the remainder of the revels.
• The officer who is intimidated by threats, or by his own fears, is recreant to his duty, and no better than the mob which threatens him.
• He, meanwhile, who should have cheered and sustained her, was afar off, neglectful, recreant to his vows.
• Here we sit down and rest our recreant limbs, leaving the reader to enjoy the innumerable reflections which our poor mention has called up.
• Not a knight of them all but plighted faith to follow where he led, and to hold himself recreant and shamed if he failed his oath.
• God always matches opportunity with ability, and when we stand face to face with opportunity, we must go forward or be recreant to every trust.
• The same, being delivered, call her gratefully a recreant.
• He brooded over his words, and believed that an avenging God had launched the bolt that killed the father as punishment to the stubborn and recreant son.
• In this spirit Cranmer burnt his recreant right hand, and in either case the glamour of a unique occasion was a stimulus to courage.
• Let the blame fall where it belongs, and let the Church members recreant to duty take their share.
• Among the Tartars was a recreant Genoese who taught them metal work and had once lived at the court of Cambaluc.
• Only the outbreak of a war with Austria prevented the court-martial which the recreant officer deserved.
• The north was humbled in the dust, by the action of her own recreant sons.
• I have no recreant heart to turn aside from danger or from suffering.
• Thomas was the eldest and the only one who proved recreant to the religious faith of his fathers.
• That is truth, said King Mark, and else I had not been here, for my lord, Sir Launcelot, brought me hither through his fine force, and to him am I yolden to as recreant.
• Upon this covenant thou shalt have thy life, said Sir Bors, so thou go unto Sir Launcelot upon Whitsunday that next cometh, and yield thee unto him as knight recreant.
• Fie on him, recreant knight, said the queen, for wit ye well I am right sorry an he shall have his life.
• Nay, said Sir Meliagrance, I will never arise until ye take me as yolden and recreant.
• Then said the knight unto Arthur, Thou art in my daunger whether me list to save thee or slay thee, and but thou yield thee as overcome and recreant, thou shalt die.
• I ask no more, said the dwarf, but that ye will suffer me to do you service, for I will serve no more recreant knights.
• NOW make your answer that your champion is ready, for I shall die in your quarrel rather than to be recreant.
• I went with him part of the way, but became so tired of my companion, that I turned recreant and fled, to enjoy a more spirited excursion of my own.
• Bill after bill struck hard and home on the privileges of the recreant clergy.
• Ludlow stood at one ladder and the free-trader at the other, in order to be certain that none proved recreant in so trying a moment.
• I thought that to leave her in slavery, after she had undergone and suffered so much for me, would be proving recreant to the duty which I owed to her.
• Many recreant Bavarians were around him, and even Suabia raised her arm against her noble duke, in the person of Werner, Archbishop of Strasburg.
• Your knight of the silver mantle I proclaim a recreant, as treacherous as he is base.
• I soon beheld a dark object moving near, and the next minute I was overjoyed to find my recreant steed, quietly searching amongst the tufted moss and sea-reed for a scanty supper.

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