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RECREANT(law)

recreant (iou)



recreant adjective & noun. Now literary. ME.
[Old French, use as adjective & noun of pres. pple of recroire yield, surrender from medieval Latin (se) recredere surrender (oneself), formed as RE- + credere entrust, believe: see -ANT1.]
A. adjective.
Confessing oneself to be vanquished, surrendering to an opponent; faint-hearted, cowardly, craven. ME.
Unfaithful to one's duty; apostate; false. M17.
D. G. Mitchell The vain purposes which have made me recreant to the better nature.
b. noun. An apostate; a coward. LME.
recreantly adverb L15.
recreantness noun (rare) E17.