Recreant

[Sarah]

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited,cowardly wretch. Blackstone.You are all recreants and dastards! Shak.

[Sarah]

Anglo-French roots with an earlier Latin root of recredere, meaning to resign oneself to a judgment.
To give up or yield.
To be unfaithful to duty or allegiance.
To cry out for help.
Cowardly.