☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Recreant

One who yields or surrenders cowardly; in medieval law, a combatant in trial by battle who cried 'craven' and gave up the fight, thereby losing both the case and their status as a free and lawful person.

Etymology: Old French 'recreant' (surrendering, cowardly), from 'recroire' (to yield in combat) · Category: English Legal History · Source: Bracton, 'De Legibus' (c. 1250)
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