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recreant
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synonyms: perfidious, apostate, poltroon, pusillanimous, retromingent, craven, timorous, pavid ???
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Definition:1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight."2. Apostate; false; unfaithful.3. {n} One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false.
Milton
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And, then and there, I threw myself hurriedly at the feet of Eleonora, and offered up a vow, to herself and to Heaven, that I would never bind myself in marriage to any daughter of Earth— that I would in no manner prove recreant to her dear memory, or to the memory of the devout affection with which she had blessed me.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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how could men see which were their own thoughts in the confusion of a Tory Ministry passing Liberal measures, of Tory nobles and electors being anxious to return Liberals rather than friends of the recreant Ministers, and of outcries for remedies which seemed to have a mysteriously remote bearing on private interest,
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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