recreant
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Recreant, the present participle of Old Fr. recreire, Vulgar Lat. *recredere, to change one's faith, contains very much the same idea; cf. miscreant, lit. unbeliever.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
"Recreant knight! will you shrink from following where your lady leads?"
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
Recreant, defeated, but still refusing aid, she had gone back to her land of flowers.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
Recreant, rek′rē-ant, adj. cowardly: false: apostate: renegade.—n. a mean-spirited wretch: an apostate: a renegade.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
And the Lord said to me, Recreant Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir
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