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Dissenter vs Recreant - What's the difference?

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Dissenter is a related term of recreant.


As a noun dissenter

is someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.

As a verb recreant is

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dissenter

English

Noun

(wikipedia dissenter) (en noun)
  • someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church

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    recreant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:For, from the day that he thus did it leave, / Amongst all Knights he blotted was with blame, / And counted but a recreant Knight with endles shame.
  • *1671 , (John Milton), Paradise Regained , III:
  • *:Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false.
  • *1793 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), :
  • *:And let the recreant traitors seek / My tourney court […].

    • Derived terms

    * recreance * recreancy * recreantly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.

    • Synonyms

    * apostate * coward * deserter * poltroon * renegade * turncoat

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