noun
definition
Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.
adjective
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Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
definition
Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
Examples of recreant in a Sentence
Huntly, as a Royalist, was decapitated at Edinburgh; and the envoys of Charles, thanks to the advice of Montrose, failed to induce him to stamp himself a recreant and a hypocrite by signing any covenants.
And hang a Calues-skin on those recreant limbs Aus.
In the manifesto the three ministers asserted that " from the peculiarity of its geographical position, and the considerations attendant upon it, Cuba is as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present members "; spoke of the danger to the United States of an insurrection in Cuba; asserted that " we should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy ingly on his return from England in 1856 he was nominated by the Democrats as a compromise candidate for president, and was elected, receiving 174 electoral votes to 114 for John C. Fremont, Republican, and 8 for Millard Fillmore, American or " Know-Nothing."