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Miscreant vs. Recreant — What's the Difference?

Miscreant vs. Recreant — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Miscreant and Recreant

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Miscreant

One who behaves badly, often by breaking rules of conduct or the law.

Recreant

Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause
"Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it" (Mark Twain).

Miscreant

(Archaic) One who does not believe in a certain religion; an infidel or heretic.

Recreant

(Archaic) Craven or cowardly.

Miscreant

Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
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Recreant

A faithless or disloyal person.

Miscreant

(theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.

Recreant

(Archaic) A coward.

Miscreant

One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

Recreant

Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.

Miscreant

One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.

Recreant

Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Miscreant

(theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

Recreant

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

Miscreant

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.

Recreant

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

Miscreant

One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a depraved person; a vile wretch.

Recreant

Apostate; false; unfaithful.
Who, for so many benefits received,Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false.

Miscreant

Holding a false religious faith.

Recreant

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
You are all recreants and dastards!

Miscreant

Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous; villainous; base; depraved.

Recreant

An abject coward

Miscreant

A person without moral scruples

Recreant

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Recreant

Having deserted a cause or principle;
Some provinces had proved recreant
Renegade supporters of the usurper

Recreant

Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;
The craven fellow turned and ran
A craven proposal to raise the white flag
This recreant knight

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