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recreant

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Adj — Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.

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From Middle English recreaunt, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). Compare miscreant.

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