RECREANT

recreant

Noun

  1. Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.

Adjective

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


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