Definition of "recreance" []

• Dated form of recreancy. (noun)

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• "He was, in fact, not the least curious for the sight, and the only thing that really troubled him was the question of how he should justify his recreance to his wife."
• "He smiled to see her grieving at this recreance of her memory to her conscience."
• "Bethought himself, to ease his heart, some recreance to find,"