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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