recreant

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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

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

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

"Recreant," cried the khan, "you have forsaken the great goddess yourself, and you would now draw away her priestess."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Recreant though he was, I must do my adversary the justice to say that he was a skilful master of fence, agile as a French dancer, and withal well-breathed and persevering.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis