recreant
RE-kree-uhnt
adjective
a disloyal person; a coward; a traitor to something
1852Elizabeth WetherellQueechy'I will choose neither, Mr. Thorn, till you have heard me. I came here to see you on the part of others—I should be a recreant to my charge if I allowed you or myself to draw me into anything that might prevent my fulfilling it….'1876James Russell LowellAmong My BooksHe sympathized with the hopes of France and of mankind deeply, as was fitting in a young man and a poet; and if his faith in the gregarious advancement of men was afterward shaken, he only held the more firmly by his belief in the individual, and his reverence for the human as something quite apart from the popular and above it. Wordsworth has been unwisely blamed, as if he had been recreant to the liberal instincts of his youth.1921Sir Rabindranath TagoreThe FugitiveThrough the great rent that yawned for my deserted first-born, all my life's pleasures have run to waste. On that accursed day when I belied my motherhood you could not utter a word; to-day your recreant mother implores you for generous words. Let your forgiveness burn her heart like fire and consume its sin.Labels: Elizabeth Wetherell, James Russell Lowell, Sir Rabindranath Tagore
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