Recusant vs Recreant - What's the difference?
recusant | recreant | Related terms |
(historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation
pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
*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 […].
Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.