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

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

She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine

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

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

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.