Definitions for recreant

recreant rec·re·ant

Spelling: [rek-ree-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈrɛk ri ənt/

Recreant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in recreant (aceenrrt).

Definitions for recreant

noun

  1. a coward.
  2. an apostate, traitor, or renegade.

adjective

  1. cowardly or craven.
  2. unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous.

Origin of recreant

1300-50; Middle English Old French, adj. and noun use of present participle of recreire to yield in a contest, equivalent to re- re- + creire Latin crēdere to believe

Examples for recreant

We condemn the man who neglects to vote as recreant to his duty.

With Peter Pan for company, Sophie waited on the porch for the recreant pair.

Finding her so obstinate he had said to her in a loud voice, "Die, recreant!"

"Why you should call him a recreant knight, I cannot for the life of me understand," she said.

The recreant Jews rejected the Savior, because He came to them with a new revelation.

Nor would he come forth, for all that Sir Bors called him coward and recreant.

Oh, Haco, that indeed were to be the traitor and the recreant!

Is his thunderbolt ever at his hand to reduce a recreant god to order?

I have no recreant heart to turn aside from danger or from suffering.

The groomsmen are denouncing him, as he deserves to be, as a slanderer and recreant.

Word Value for recreant
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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