A person who yields, or is defeated, in combat; a coward, a faint-hearted person. Now archaic.
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| 释义 | the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > yielding to the enemy > one who yields in combat or deserts battlefield (5) recreantc1425 A person who yields, or is defeated, in combat; a coward, a faint-hearted person. Now archaic. skedaddler1864 chocolate-cream soldier1894 (originally) a soldier who is unwilling to fight; (later chiefly) one who has little experience of combat, or whose duties are mainly ceremonial; cf… chocolate soldier1895 depreciative. Originally: a soldier who is unwilling to fight; (later chiefly) one who has little experience of combat, or whose duties are… non-hero1924 A person, esp. in a work of fiction, who does not possess the conventional characteristics of a hero. Cf. anti-hero, n. |
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