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recreants

recreants is the plural of recreant.

Meaning of recreant

Noun

recreant (plural recreants)

  1. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.
    • [I]n the Choephoroe of Aeschylus Orestes pursues the same idea saying that unless he avenges his father, a stern duty which has devolved upon him, he will be punished in turn by the avengers of his father's wrongs. It may be remarked that in Maina to-day no recourse must be had to law for such...1928, Montague Summers, chapter 3, in The Vampire, His Kith and Kin

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Questions about recreants

What is recreants the plural of?
Recreants is the plural of recreant.

Words near recreants in the dictionary

  1. recreance
  2. recreancies
  3. recreancy
  4. recreant
  5. recreantly
  6. recreants
  7. recrease
  8. recreased
  9. recreases
  10. recreasing
  11. recreate

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