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Recreant vs Recrayed - What's the difference?

recreant | recrayed |

As adjectives the difference between recreant and recrayed

is that recreant is having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated while recrayed is cowardly, recreant.

As a noun recreant

is somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.

As a verb recrayed is

past tense of recray.

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

    Anagrams

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    recrayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recray)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Cowardly, recreant.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:
  • *:Sir Launcelot, now I well understonde that thou arte a false recrayed knyght and a comon lechourere, and lovyste and holdiste othir ladyes, and of me thou haste dysdayne and scorne.
  • (obsolete) Weak; lazy.