English Dictionary

recreant

/ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/

adj

(now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated. / (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

He was considered a recreant knight for abandoning his post.

意味（1）

(now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.

Soothly, he that despeireth hym is lyk

The coward champious recreant, that seith,

Creant withoute nede, allas! akkas! bedekes us

He recreant and nedelees despeired.

Soothly, he that despeireth hym is lyk The coward champious recreant, that seith, Creant withoute nede, allas! akkas! bedekes us He recreant and nedelees despeired. [Translation by Larry D. Benson from Riverside Chaucer: Truly, he that despairs himself is like the cowardly defeated champion, who says I surrender without need. Alas, alas, needless is he defeated and needless in despair.]

意味（2）

(now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]