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

And still further back: her careless, fiery girlhood—when the knowledge of her mother's recreancy, undermining her sense of responsibility by the condoning suggestion of heredity, had made her quick to excuse her lack of self-control.

From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

Thou didst know what Thou didst not hear, my muttered recreancy and treason, and my blurted out oaths of denial.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

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

To think of it for a moment is base recreancy and intolerable shame.

From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)