recreant

recreant
adj.
Use cowardly.

RECREANT

Apostate defector (Tac. ; apostata Tert.).

Coward ignavus: timidus.

recreant:

I. Cowardly:

1. ignāvus: r. and unwarlike among foes, ignavi et imbelles inter hostes, Liv. 26, 2.

2 fŭgax: routed by a r. enemy, fugacissimo ab hoste fusos, Liv. 5, 28. Phr.: timidus ac tremens, Cic. Pis. 30, 74: a r. friend, false sodalis, Catull. 27, 1.

II. Apostate:

1. apostăta, ae: Tertull. adv. Marc. 5, 11: Cypr. Laps. 33.

2. perfĭdus: ib.

3. dēfector Tac.