recreancy

Example Sentences

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I was certain that New Orleans, louche and corrupted in my view, would condone my recreancy.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2015

They found in him only a guilty recreancy to sacred principle for the same act which in themselves was inspired by devotion to the Union.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

With a sense of recreancy that was wholly shameless, he realized that it was no longer Ida Ludington, but Ida Slater, whom he loved.

From Miss Ludington's Sister by Bellamy, Edward

It would be sad recreancy to my most sacred duty were I, falling in love with a dream, to forsake a great reality.'

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William

They were theologically reconstructed through their unselfish devotion to humanity and the recreancy of the churches to which they had been attached.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis