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

While facing the savage warfare of their former friends Liberal Republicans were suddenly brought into the most friendly and intimate relations with the men whose recreancy to humanity they had unsparingly denounced for years.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.

I!" exclaimed Mlle. de Montluc; "I weep over his recreancy?

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

Amidst the poignancy of her regrets, her shame for her recreancy was sharper still.

From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean

Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.

From No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York by Garrison, William Lloyd