Usually means: Cowardly, unfaithful, or traitorous person.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. recreant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. recreant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recreant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recreant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recreant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recreant, recreant: Wordnik
  7. recreant: Wiktionary
  8. recreant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. recreant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. recreant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Recreant, recreant: Dictionary.com
  12. recreant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Recreant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. recreant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. recreant: Rhymezone
  16. Recreant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. recreant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. recreant: Free Dictionary
  19. recreant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. recreant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. recreant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. recreant: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recreant: A Word A Day
  2. recreant: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recreant)

adjective:  (now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
adjective:  (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
noun:  Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

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