| a. | 1. | Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. |
| 2. | Apostate; false; unfaithful. | |
| n. | 1. | One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch. |
| Noun | 1. | recreant - an abject coward |
| 2. | recreant - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | |
| Adj. | 1. | recreant - having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper" Synonyms: renegade |
| 2. | recreant - 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 Synonyms: craven |
RECREANT. A Coward; a poltroon. 3 Bl. Com. 340.
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