how to pronounce recreant

/ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/

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recreant is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of recreant in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… not prove recreant to my duty thus he …”

meanings of recreant

adjective:

Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

noun:

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

recreant frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word recreant occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics recreant can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that recreant can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;