recreant

Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause.

Craven or cowardly.

A faithless or disloyal person.

A coward.

Ready to yield in fight; acknowledging defeat; hence, craven; cowardly. Compare craven.

Unfaithful to duty; betraying trust.

One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a meanspirited, cowardly, or unfaithful wretch.

Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

Apostate; false; unfaithful.

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.