Synonyms for recreancy:
noun defection
Examples of uses:
She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.
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Title: Mary Gray, author: Katharine Tynan, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20201/20201-h/20201-h.htm
Amidst the poignancy of her regrets, her shame for her recreancy was sharper still.
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Title: Annie Kilburn, author: William Dean Howells, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7502/7502-h/7502-h.htm
It would be sad recreancy to my most sacred duty were I, falling in love with a dream, to forsake a great reality.'
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Title: Zenobia, author: William Ware, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8938/8938-h/8938-h.htm
To hint to them that Davis would succeed was not only recreancy to freedom, but blasphemy against God.
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31454/31454-h/31454-h.htm
Jeanne had a girl's pride in wanting this woman to understand that she was in no wise hurt by Marsac's recreancy.
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Title: A Little Girl in Old Detroit, author: Amanda Minnie Douglas, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20721/20721-h/20721-h.htm
If I am stopped at my first recreancy and turned directly the contrary way, I think I have courage.'
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Title: Diana of the Crossways, Complete, author: George Meredith, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470-h/4470-h.htm
His opposition, and their own recreancy of principle, tended rapidly to their overthrow.
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Title: The Felon's Track, author: Michael Doheny, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14468/14468-h/14468-h.htm
Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.
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Title: No Compromise with Slavery, author: William Lloyd Garrison, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24194/24194-h/24194-h.htm
