| 单词 | recreant |
| 释义 | recreant (once / 6637 pages) adjn A recreant is a heavy-duty coward. If your friend shoves you in front of him when a growling dog approaches, you'd quickly recognize him for the recreant that he is. And in the future you’d choose your friends more carefully. An extreme recreant would be the soldier who goes over to the enemy if it looks like they might win. Definitely not the kind of person you'd want in your platoon. Recreant (RE-cree-unt) comes from the Latin re-, meaning to "reverse" something, and credere, "entrust." The word miscreant is nearly synonymous, although a miscreant is not so much a coward, but just an all-around bad sort. WORD FAMILYrecreant: recreantly, recreants USAGE EXAMPLES“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?” T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) The recreant blackamoor was almost mad with terror, his skin turned a dusky-greyish hue, and his eyes rolled about in an agony of fright. Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis), A Lad of Grit—A Story of Adventure...(2012) A recreant in the fight; And fellowship with light. Rameur, E., The Catholic World; Volume I, Issue...(2012) 1adj having deserted a cause or principle some provinces had proved recreant Syn renegade disloyal deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle 2adj lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful "this recreant knight"- Spenser Syn craven cowardly, fearful lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted 3n a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. Syn|Hyper apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat quitter a person who gives up too easily 4n an abject coward Syn|Hyper craven, poltroon coward a person who shows fear or timidity |
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