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Recusant vs Recreant - What's the difference?

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Recusant is a related term of recreant.


As verbs the difference between recusant and recreant

is that recusant is while recreant is .

recusant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
  • anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation
  • Synonyms

    * papist

    Adjective

    (head)
  • pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
  • Anagrams

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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

    Anagrams

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