different between recusant vs recreant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rec?sans, rec?s?ntis, from rec?s? (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj?z?nt/

Noun

recusant (plural recusants)

1. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Synonyms

• papist

Related terms

• recuse
• recusancy
• refusenik

Translations

Adjective

recusant

1. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
   • 1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition:

     Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.

Anagrams

• Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, near cuts, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces

Latin

Verb

rec?sant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rec?s?

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman recreant, Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). See recray; and compare miscreant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?i?nt/

Adjective

recreant (comparative more recreant, superlative most recreant)

1. (now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated. [from 13th c.]
2. (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• recreance
• recreancy
• recreantly

Noun

recreant (plural recreants)

1. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Synonyms

Anagrams

• Terrance, canterer, recanter

Catalan

Verb

recreant

1. present participle of recrear

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin recreans, present participle of recre? (“I refresh; I invigorate”). Equivalent to recreëren +? -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?.kre???nt/
• Hyphenation: re?cre?ant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

recreant m (plural recreanten, diminutive recreantje n)

1. someone who practices or enjoys recreation

References

• H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• traceren

Latin

Verb

recreant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of recre?

Old French

Adjective

recreant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular recreant or recreante)

1. recreant; defeated

Descendants

• ? English: recreant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (recreant)
• recreant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub