recreancy
81disloyalty — [n] unfaithfulness apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, deceitfulness, disaffection, doubledealing, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, sedition,… …
82fear — [n] alarm, apprehension abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, chickenheartedness*, cold feet*, cold sweat*, concern, consternation, cowardice, creeps, despair, discomposure, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread …
83submission — [n] compliance acquiescence, appeasement, assent, backing down, bowing, capitulation, cringing, defeatism, deference, docility, giving in, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, obedience, passivism, passivity, pliabilty,… …
84treachery — [n] disloyalty, dishonesty betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing*, dirty pool*, dirty trick*, dirty work*, disaffection, dodge, double cross*, double dealing*, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, falseness, fast shuffle*, flimflam*, grift, gyp* …
85recreant — a.,n. cowardly or renegade (person). ♦ recreancy, n …
86recreant — [rek′rē ənt] [Archaic or Literary] Literary Archaic adj. [ME < OFr prp. of recreire, to surrender allegiance < ML recredere, to give in or up < L re , back, again + credere, to believe: see CREED] 1. cowardly; craven 2. failing to keep… …
87recreant — adj. & n. literary adj. 1 craven, cowardly. 2 apostate. n. 1 a coward. 2 an apostate. Derivatives: recreancy n. recreantly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF, part. of recroire f. med.L (se) recredere yield in trial by combat (as RE , credere entrust) …
88recreance — ˈrekrēən(t)s noun ( s) Etymology: from recreant (I), after such pairs as English assistant : assistance : recreancy …
