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Definition of Recreant

Recreant
Recreant Rec"re*ant, n. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch. --Blackstone. You are all recreants and dastards! --Shak.

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- Desolation of Eden features two re-recordings of the songs "Cheyne Stokes" and "Recreant" which were originally on the band's self-titled EP. Alex Henderson of...
- Recordings the following year of its release. The songs "Cheyne Stokes" and "Recreant" were re-recorded for their debut full-length album, which was released...
- defense of my native state, Virginia, in which case I shall not prove recreant to my duty". Although Virginia had the most slaves of any state, it was...
- currently two music videos from the record, "Sonnet of the Wretched" and "Recreant". The music video for "Sonnet of the Wretched" was filmed on June 4, 2010...
- Faramir to death with the words "Come if you are not all recreant!" Lear calls Kent "recreant" for criticising Lear's handling of Cordelia. Tolkien uses...
- Kelvin II (1880) "Charge of the 5th Dragoon Guards on the insurgents – a recreant yeoman having deserted to them in uniform is being cut down" Belligerents...
- blood!” What joy, for fatherland to die! Death's darts e'en flying feet o'ertake, Nor spare a recreant chivalry, A back that cowers, or loins that quake....
- (Sep. 1998) 71#3, pp. 378–403 in JSTOR Brennan, Ellen E. "James Otis: Recreant and Patriot," New England Quarterly (1939) 12:691–725 in JSTOR Clancy,...
- gathering a large Mughal Army outside Delhi. He used the army to depose the recreant Shah Jahan III. Najib-ud-Daula and Muslim nobles then planned to defeat...
- . that there will not be found, in the wider limits of the state, one recreant son who will not fly to the rescue, and be ready to lay down his life in...