recreancy
71knavery — n 1. rascality, roguery, roguishness, unscrupulousness, baseness, knavishness; villainy, miscreancy, deviltry, evildoing, wrongdoing, evil ways, dark and crooked ways; mischief, mischievousness, pettifoggery, chicanery, shenanigans, hanky panky,… …
72perfidy — n 1. treachery, traitorousness, Iscariotism, quislingism; faithlessness, unfaithfulness, disloyalty, perfidiousness, infidelity; false heartedness, duplicity, falseness, guile, deceit; dutilessness, recreancy, defection, desertion, apostasy,… …
73pusillanimity — n timidity, timorousness, cowardice, cowardliness, lily liveredness, faint heartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness, Sl. yellow belliedness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, no backbone, a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken… …
74relinquishment — n 1. renunciation, abnegation, abdication, resignation, Archaic. demission; transfer, transferal, transference, ceding, leasing, handing over. 2. recantation, repudiation, disavowal, denial, back pedaling; defection, heresy, apostasy, recreance,… …
75renunciation — n 1. relinquishment, abnegation, abdication, resignation, giving up, Archaic. demission; transfer, transferal, transference, ceding, cession, handing over; surrender, yielding, renouncement. 2. abandonment, desertion, forsaking, rejection,… …
76treachery — n treason, betrayal, violation of faith; treasonableness, traitorousness, bad faith, disloyalty, unloyalty, perfidy, perfidiousness, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, recreance, recreancy; infidelity, Sl. two timing, cheating, double dealing,… …
77vileness — n 1. baseness, meanness, viciousness, lowness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; wickedness, iniquity, nefariousness, flagitiousness …
78recreant — /ˈrɛkriənt / (say rekreeuhnt) adjective 1. cowardly or craven. 2. unfaithful, disloyal, or false. –noun 3. a coward or craven. 4. an apostate; a traitor. {Middle English, from Old French, from recreire, yield in a contest, from re back + creire,… …
79defection — [n] abandonment alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy, rejection,… …
80desertion — [n] abandonment abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness,… …
