The Word of the Week is ‘recreant’, an adjective used frequently by Shakespeare meaning ‘unfaithful or disloyal to a belief’, or ’craven or cowardly’.
It appears in no less than eight Shakespeare works. To pick out just one quote, from Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (III, 2):
'Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,
And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;
I’ll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled
That draws a sword on thee’.
Word of the Week: ‘Recreant’ (adv.) ‘cowardly; unfaithful to a belief’
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Anna is the Globe Education Assistant for Learning Projects.