Word Meanings - RECREANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: RECREANT

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, 1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight." Spenser. 2. Apostate; false; unfaithful. Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECREANT)

• Backslider
• Renegade
• abjurer
• recreant
• apostate
• Coward
• Craven
• dastard
• poltroon
• renegade
• Apostate
• traitor
• deserter
• heretic
• betrayer
• backslider
• vagabond
• turncoat

Related words: (words related to RECREANT)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• POLTROONERY
  Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
• POLTROON
  An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• TURNCOAT
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• HERETICATE
  To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• DASTARDLINESS
  The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
• COWARDIE
  Cowardice.
• HERETIC
  One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold. Syn. -- Heretic, Schismatic,
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• TRAITORLY
  Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
• VAGABONDIZE
  To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
• ABJURER
  One who abjures.
• DASTARD
  One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak. (more info) p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become
• COWARDLINESS
  Cowardice.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.