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recreance

recreance is the dated form of recreancy.

Meaning of recreancy

Noun

recreancy (countable and uncountable, plural recreancies)

  1. The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy.
    • What must be the feelings of the sons of Massachusetts when, on any public occasion requiring a statement of her claims, the boast of her former deeds shall be met with the reproach of her later recreancy?1824, Harrison Gray Otis, Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention and the People of Massachusetts, Letter II

Questions about recreance

What is recreance the dated form of?
Recreance is the dated form of recreancy.

Words near recreance in the dictionary

  1. recrawl
  2. recrawled
  3. recrawling
  4. recrawls
  5. recrayed
  6. recreance
  7. recreancies
  8. recreancy
  9. recreant
  10. recreantly
  11. recreants

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