Main entry: deserter, turncoat, apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade
Definition: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
Main entry: craven, poltroon, recreant
Definition: an abject coward
Definition: lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
Usage: the craven fellow turned and ran; a craven proposal to raise the white flag; this recreant knight- Spenser
Main entry: recreant, renegade
Definition: having deserted a cause or principle
Usage: some provinces had proved recreant; renegade supporters of the usurper