recreance
Example Sentences
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His own recreance too, there was something to regret about that.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
He smiled to see her grieving at this recreance of her memory to her conscience.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by William Dean Howells
To give the pledge, and yet be pined That a pledge should have force to bind, This, O Soul, too often still Is the recreance of thy will!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
