recreant

Meanings

Adjective

Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Noun

Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

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Origin

From Anglo-Norman recreant, Middle French recreant, from recroire. See recray; and compare miscreant.

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