quitter vs recreant

quitter and recreant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quitter	Yes	No	No	No
recreant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, recreant is a hyponym of quitter; that is, recreant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than quitter:

quitter: a person who gives up too easily
recreant: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Other hyponyms of quitter include abdicator, dropout, apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat.

quitter (noun)	recreant (noun)
a person who gives up too easily	an abject coward
	a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

quitter (adjective)	recreant (adjective)
	lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
	having deserted a cause or principle