no-show vs recreant

no-show

noun
  • A person or group that does not show up. 

  • An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment. 

verb
  • To fail to show up for something. 

recreant

noun
  • Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor. 

adj
  • Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. 

How often have the words no-show and recreant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )