recreancy
51desertion — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. abandonment, flight, escape, departure, leaving, secession, defection, dereliction, renunciation, disavowing, disavowal, disaffection, apostasy, withdrawal, avoidance, evasion, elusion, truancy, repudiation, relinquishment …
52disloyalty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. infidelity, inconstancy, treachery, unfaithfulness, recreancy, apostasy, betrayal of trust, faithlessness, disaffection, subversion, sedition, treason, deliberate breaking of faith, breach of trust, subversive activity,… …
53apostasy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An instance of defecting from or abandoning a cause: defection, recreance, recreancy, tergiversation. See APPROACH, TRUST …
54recreance — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An instance of defecting from or abandoning a cause: apostasy, defection, recreancy, tergiversation. See APPROACH, TRUST …
55tergiversation — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun l.An instance of defecting from or abandoning a cause: apostasy, defection, recreance, recreancy. See APPROACH, TRUST. 2. The use or an instance of equivocal language: ambiguity, equivocation, equivoque, euphemism,… …
56recreant — [ rɛkrɪənt] archaic adjective 1》 cowardly. 2》 apostate. noun a recreant person. Derivatives recreancy noun recreantly adverb Origin ME: from OFr., lit. surrendering , pres. participle of recroire, from med. L. (se) recredere surrender (oneself) …
57pusillanimity — n. Cowardice, cowardliness, timidity, poltroonery, recreancy, dastardliness, meanspiritedness, pusillanimousness, effeminacy, faintheartedness, fear …
58abandonment — n 1. desertion, forsaking, rejection; defection, heresy, apostasy, recreance, recreancy; neglect, negligence, dereliction; departure, decampment, evacuation. 2. relinquishment, abnegation, resignation, abdication, Archaic. demission; renunciation …
59apostasy — n 1.(all used in reference to allegiance or principles) desertion, abandonment, forsaking, forswearing, relinquishment; rejection, rejecting, renunciation, renouncement, abjuration, repudiation. 2. withdrawal, secession; falling away, dropping… …
60baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
