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Significados de recreant en inglés

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A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

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medroso
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miedoso

An abject coward.

miedoso

Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful.

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Having deserted a cause or principle.

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Examples for "craven"
Examples for "craven"
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Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
The Irish Times
2
Then you understand how craven it is to deny workers minimum wage.
The Guardian
3
Every minister and bureaucrat too self-interested or too craven to speak up.
The Guardian
4
Sourly he accepted defeat, raging in his craven spirit at the necessity.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
5
Liar and craven will I dub you throughout the whole of France.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
Uso de recreant en inglés
1
The recreant or the dreamer complains that he has no real chance.
It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration
2
A conspirator who wanted to be safe was a recreant in disguise.
The Greek View of Life
3
I were false and recreant if I went not to their assistance.
The Red Axe
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Only by being recreant to every sentiment of honor, gratitude and humanity.
A Daughter of Fife
5
The magistrates were recreant to their trust, he has performed their functions.
Napoleon the Little
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Take it, or I proclaim you recreant knights and vanquished, every one!
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
7
Oh, Haco, that indeed were to be the traitor and the recreant!
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
8
Because we are all recreant Americans; recreant to the principles of our ancestors.
Sketches from Concord and Appledore / Concord thirty years ago; ...
9
I am a recreant, I know;-butyet I think that I was right.
He Knew He Was Right
10
Pausanias replied, Dogs fear the steady eye and spring at the recreant back.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
11
He was Striving with his recreant memory for the words that came after:
The Lure of the Dim Trails
12
We will show the young recreant how promises are kept in Durham County.
Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the W...
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He whom thou hast called recreant knight, has been Saxon host.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
14
Well, my loves, we must enjoy our breakfasts, even without the recreant Loftus.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
15
Yield therefore as defeated, and a recreant knight, or thou shall surely die.
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
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For to distrust one's impulses is to be recreant to Pan.
Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
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