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recreance

/rek-ree-uhnt/US // ˈrɛk ri ənt //UK // (ˈrɛkrɪənt) archaic //

休闲,缓和,休闲娱乐,缓刑

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cowardly or craven.
    • : unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a coward.
    • : an apostate, traitor, or renegade.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I had rather prove recreant to the oath I took before I realized the worth of the woman whose happiness I vowed to destroy.

  • While thus employed there came almost bursting into the room a man struck with remorse—Jefferies, the recreant postmaster.

  • It was possible that, when nothing more was to be gained by falsehoods, his recreant friend would clear his fame once for all.

  • Not for a moment did the Doctor believe that his recreant son pondered wisely and deeply these successive epistles of his.

  • Thus far had my conscience written with my pen; and see what a recreant she had made of me!