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Example sentences for "recreant"

Lexicographically close words:
recoveries; recovering; recovers; recovery; recreancy; recreate; recreated; recreates; recreating; recreation
  1. She seemed capable of believing that he was trying to make a fool of her; she would have thought him cruelly recreant if he had suddenly departed in desperation, and yet she gave him no visible credit for his constancy.

  2. Mrs. Hudson was doubtless too sincerely humble a person to suppose that if he had been recreant to his vows of vigilance and tenderness, her still, small presence would operate as a chastisement.

  3. Moreover, they desire that those Catholics who have remained faithful to the church shall be looked upon as recreant to the state, accusing them of want of patriotism.

  4. Shall I be recreant to my mission, and to the toiling millions, on whom their accursed treason falls?

  5. Already was he closeted with his privy council, sitting in grim state, brooding over the fate of his favorite trumpeter, and anon boiling with indignation as the insolence of his recreant burgomasters flashed upon his mind.

  6. Though a thousand should bid him flee, and his heart should echo their advices, he is recreant if he deserts his post at the command of any but him who set him there.

  7. So King Mark was soon brought as recreant before King Arthur, who already knew wherefore he was come into his country, and that he had not done the service and homage he owed as King Arthur's under-lord.

  8. Very rich is he, and lovelier far than the shamed recreant who has left you in this plight.

  9. So Sir Robert cried that save his foe admitted himself recreant and shamed he would slay him with the sword.

  10. So Sir Robert held forth his gage to his lord, and Sir Raoul tendered gage of battle in return, though but fearfully; for needs must he defend himself, or be proclaimed recreant and traitor.

  11. Pausanias replied, "Dogs fear the steady eye and spring at the recreant back.

  12. In years hence, when all things else will seem to have passed away, memory will not prove recreant to the faithful friend of all--the tiny whistle.

  13. No Eighty-sixth man will be so recreant to the memories of the past as to forget this day's march.

  14. He walked slowly; the proximity of his recreant wife gave him neither pang nor thrill.

  15. It was in Phil's mind that she had nothing to do with those things; that the woman against whose cheek she had laid her own was not Thomas Kirkwood's recreant wife, but another and very different person.

  16. He shows the need of imagination in practical affairs and, by implication, shows that the school has been recreant to its opportunities in the way of stimulating this requisite quality.

  17. Here we have ample scope for the problem element in teaching and we are recreant to our opportunities and do violence to child-nature if we fail to utilize this method.

  18. Or, if misfortune miss the first career, Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom That they may break his foaming courser's back And throw the rider headlong in the lists, A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!

  19. Some of the recreant brotherhood, remorsefully admiring, cheered him up by appearing on the platform of the station to wish him God-speed.

  20. Twas but a half fight for the Truth, he felt, and ceased to cultivate the semi-recreant physician.

  21. It would be distinctly recreant to its duty, in case it failed to provide for the economic prosperity of such a population, and for their educational discipline and social improvement.

  22. In abandoning and replacing him a democracy is not recreant to the principle of individual liberty.

  23. It was because the North lost faith in her recreant children.

  24. Other matrimonial advertisements, those of recreant and disobedient wives, appear in considerable number, especially in Connecticut papers.

  25. A month later the recreant lover reappeared and finally married poor disappointed Mary, who died very complaisantly in a short time and left him free to marry his first love, which he quickly did.

  26. The proper name of the recreant "regulus" has not been discovered, so that his infamy is transmitted anonymously to posterity.

  27. Maurice FitzGerald arrived at Wexford a few days after, and the recreant king at once proceeded to meet him; and with this addition to his army, marched to attack Dublin.

  28. It was probably about this time that a recreant Irish chieftain tried to induce Agricola to invade Ireland.

  29. There, I turned the full fury of my resentment against that recreant which had been the sole cause of all the evil accidents which had befallen me.

  30. Because we are all recreant Americans; recreant to the principles of our ancestors.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recreant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apostate; atheist; atheistic; backsliding; base; blasphemous; collaborator; convert; coward; cowardly; degenerate; derelict; deserter; disaffected; disloyal; faithless; fallen; false; fickle; heretic; impious; inconstant; infamous; irreligious; irreverent; knavish; lapsed; lecher; miscreant; mugwump; notorious; perfidious; pervert; pimp; poltroon; profane; profligate; proselyte; rat; recreant; renegade; reprobate; roguish; sacrilegious; scapegrace; schismatic; secessionist; separatist; sneak; traitor; traitorous; treacherous; treasonable; trollop; turncoat; unbeliever; undutiful; unfaithful; untrue; vile; villainous; whore