Usually means: Betrayal of trust or confidence.
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  1. recreancy: Merriam-Webster
  2. recreancy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recreancy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. recreancy: Wordnik
  5. recreancy: Wiktionary
  6. Recreancy, recreancy: Dictionary.com
  7. Recreancy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. recreancy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Recreancy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. recreancy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. recreancy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. recreancy: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy.

Similar:
recusancy, recalcitrance, reprobateness, disreputability, recluseness, remissiveness, rebelhood, recreativeness, cravenness, reclusiveness, more...

Opposite:
loyalty, faithfulness, steadfastness

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Similar:
recusancy, recalcitrance, reprobateness, disreputability, recluseness, remissiveness, rebelhood, recreativeness, cravenness, reclusiveness, more...

Opposite:
loyalty, faithfulness, steadfastness



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