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recreant a. 胆小的,怯懦的,不义的
n. 胆怯者,不义的人,叛徒,懦夫 胆小的,怯懦的,不义的胆怯者,不义的人,叛徒,懦夫 recreant adj 1: having deserted a cause or principle; " some provinces had proved recreant"; " renegade supporters of the usurper" [ synonym: { recreant}, { renegade}] 2: 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 [ synonym: { craven}, { recreant}] n 1: an abject coward [ synonym: { poltroon}, { craven}, { recreant}] 2: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [ synonym: { deserter}, { apostate}, { renegade}, { turncoat}, { recreant}, { ratter}] Recreant \ Rec" re* ant\ (- ant), a. [ OF., cowardly, fr. recroire, recreire, to forsake, leave, tire, discourage, regard as conquered, LL. recredere se to declare one' s self conquered in combat; hence, those are called recrediti or recreanti who are considered infamous; L. pref. re- again, back credere to believe, to be of opinion; hence, originally, to disavow one' s opinion. See { Creed}.] 1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean- spirited; craven. " This recreant knight." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Apostate; false; unfaithful. [ 1913 Webster] Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Recreant \ Rec" re* ant\, n. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean- spirited, cowardly wretch. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] You are all recreants and dastards! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 110 Moby Thesaurus words for " recreant": Sabbath- breaker, apostate, arrant coward, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, base, black sheep, blackguardly, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, caitiff, collaborationist, collaborative, collaborator, convert, craven, dastard, dastardly, defector, degenerate, degraded, derelict, deserter, disaffected, disloyal, dunghill, dunghilly, faithless, fallen, fallen angel, fallen from grace, false, fickle, fifth columnist, impious, inconstant, infamous, irreligious, irreverent, knavish, lapsed, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, mugwump, not true to, notorious, of bad faith, perfidious, pervert, pimp, poltroon, poltroonish, profanatory, profane, profligate, proselyte, pusillanimous, quisling, rascally, rat, recidivist, recidivistic, renegade, renegado, renegate, reprobate, reversionist, roguish, runagate, sacrilegious, sacrilegist, scampish, scapegrace, schismatic, scoundrelly, seceder, secessionist, separatist, sneak, sorry lot, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversating, tergiversator, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, trollop, trothless, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, undutiful, unfaithful, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, vile, villainous, whore
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