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Definition of recreant in English: recreantadjective ˈrɛkrɪəntˈrɛkriənt archaic 1Cowardly. 怯懦的，胆小的 what a recreant figure must he make 他必定会像是胆小鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - For he did not dare give battle to our King of England; but, like a coward and a recreant knight, he made a lady, the Countess of Henaud, his messenger to come to our King and his Council, and pray that he would cease, and no more spill the blood of Christians or destroy their goods.
Synonyms easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, afraid, frightened, scared, faint-hearted 2Unfaithful to a belief; apostate. 不忠的，变节的 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Where is this recreant knight?’ said Francesca.
- The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels.
- Any whitewashing on the part of the committee, or any attempt to "let down easy" a man who has been so recreant to a great public trust, cannot fail to have a serious effect upon the fortunes of the men responsible for it, and upon any political party that may, through its control of legislative action, uphold them in such a course.
- Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again?
Synonyms unfaithful, faithless, false, false-hearted, untrue, inconstant, untrustworthy
noun ˈrɛkrɪəntˈrɛkriənt archaic 1A coward. 怯懦的，胆小的 the recreant acted with outward boldness Example sentencesExamples - The chief fallacy appears to be this - that he insists that the race must always count for more than the individual, and that the individual must fall in line and step with the average conventions of the race at the expense of his own well-being, or be judged a deserter and a recreant.
- They told me he was a recreant and a coward, but I knew it was false.
- As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant.
Synonyms weakling, milksop, namby-pamby, mouse 2A person who is unfaithful to a belief; an apostate. 不忠的，变节的 Example sentencesExamples - Wordsworth compares himself to a truant, a false steward, a recreant, when he does not write poetry, when poetic numbers fail to come spontaneously, when his harp is defrauded and the singer ends in silence.
Synonyms dissident, dissenter, nonconformist, unorthodox thinker, heterodox thinker, apostate, freethinker, iconoclast, schismatic, renegade
Derivativesnoun archaic This I understand to mean that the punishment for recreancy falls on the champion himself unless his hirer raises him from the field. Example sentencesExamples - Cowardice had stayed my hand and silenced my tongue, and now I would have to live with the outcome of my insufferable recreancy.
adverb archaic
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, literally 'surrendering', present participle of recroire, from medieval Latin (se) recredere 'surrender (oneself)', from re- (expressing reversal) + credere 'entrust'. Definition of recreant in US English: recreantadjectiveˈrekrēəntˈrɛkriənt archaic 1Cowardly. 怯懦的，胆小的 what a recreant figure must he make 他必定会像是胆小鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - For he did not dare give battle to our King of England; but, like a coward and a recreant knight, he made a lady, the Countess of Henaud, his messenger to come to our King and his Council, and pray that he would cease, and no more spill the blood of Christians or destroy their goods.
Synonyms easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, afraid, frightened, scared, faint-hearted 2Unfaithful to a belief; apostate. 不忠的，变节的 Example sentencesExamples - The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels.
- ‘Where is this recreant knight?’ said Francesca.
- Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again?
- Any whitewashing on the part of the committee, or any attempt to "let down easy" a man who has been so recreant to a great public trust, cannot fail to have a serious effect upon the fortunes of the men responsible for it, and upon any political party that may, through its control of legislative action, uphold them in such a course.
Synonyms unfaithful, faithless, false, false-hearted, untrue, inconstant, untrustworthy
nounˈrekrēəntˈrɛkriənt archaic 1A coward. 怯懦的，胆小的 Example sentencesExamples - The chief fallacy appears to be this - that he insists that the race must always count for more than the individual, and that the individual must fall in line and step with the average conventions of the race at the expense of his own well-being, or be judged a deserter and a recreant.
- As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant.
- They told me he was a recreant and a coward, but I knew it was false.
Synonyms weakling, milksop, namby-pamby, mouse 2A person who is unfaithful to a belief; an apostate. 不忠的，变节的 Example sentencesExamples - Wordsworth compares himself to a truant, a false steward, a recreant, when he does not write poetry, when poetic numbers fail to come spontaneously, when his harp is defrauded and the singer ends in silence.
Synonyms dissident, dissenter, nonconformist, unorthodox thinker, heterodox thinker, apostate, freethinker, iconoclast, schismatic, renegade
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, literally ‘surrendering’, present participle of recroire, from medieval Latin (se) recredere ‘surrender (oneself)’, from re- (expressing reversal) + credere ‘entrust’. |