The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RECREANT
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More clues leading to the result RECREANT
- Abandon belief, holding religious teaching to be cowardly
- Cowardly to withdraw statement implicating soldiers
- Withdraw, carrying emptied rifle, being cowardly
- Cowardly soldiers interrupting to forswear a previously held belief
- To unsay what has been said about sappers is cowardly
- . Cowardly person's career transformed by book
- Apostate discovering religious text after chequered career
- Treacherous reactionaries excoriated civil rights efforts and needled their leaders
- Coward thrashed canterer
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What does RECREANT mean?
RECREANT noun- Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.
- Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
- Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.