recreant
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(s) having deserted a cause or principle
- some provinces had proved recreant
- renegade supporters of the usurper
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(s) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
- the craven fellow turned and ran
- a craven proposal to raise the white flag
- "this recreant knight"- Spenser
Nouns
- (n) an abject coward craven, poltroon,
- (n) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. apostate, deserter, ratter, turncoat, renegade,