recreancy

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkɹiənsi/ === Noun === recreancy (countable and uncountable, plural recreancies) The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy. 1981, C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (rev. by D.J. Enright), Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, Part Two: "Swann in Love": Swann remained silent, and, by this fresh act of recreancy, spoiled the brilliant dialectical contest which Mme Verdurin was rejoicing at being able to offer to Forcheville.