recreant
英 [ˈrekriənt]
美 [ˈrɛkriənt]
- n. 懦夫；叛徒
- adj. 胆小的；怯懦的；不忠的
中文词源
recreant 懦夫，叛徒，胆小的，怯懦的
re-,再，重新，反复，-cre,心，词源同 heart,credo,miscreant.-ant,人。即反复改变信仰的人， 见风驶舵的人，引申词义懦夫，叛徒，后用于指胆小的，怯懦的。
英语词源
- recreant (adj.)
- c. 1300, "confessing oneself to be overcome or vanquished," from Old French recreant "defeated, vanquished, yielding, giving; weak, exhausted; cowardly," present participle adjective from recroire "to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance," literally "believe again;" perhaps on notion of "take back one's pledge, yield one's cause," from re- "again, back" (see re-) + croire "entrust, believe," from Latin credere (see credo).
Non sufficit ... nisi dicat illud verbum odiosum, quod recreantus sit. [Bracton, c. 1260]
Meaning "cowardly" in English is from late 14c. Meaning "unfaithful to duty" is from 1640s. - recreant (n.)
- "one who yields in combat, one who begs for mercy, one who admits defeat," early 15c., hence "coward, faint-hearted wretch;" from recreant (adj.) and from Old French recreant as a noun, "one who acknowledges defeat, a craven, coward, renegade, traitor, wretch." In English, sense of "apostate, deserter, villain" is from 1560s.
权威例句
- 1. Some provinces had proved recreant.
- 有些省份叛逆了.
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