His Recreancy to the trust reposed in him was the ruin of many.
"The Good Time Coming"
T. S. Arthur
And still further back: her careless, fiery girlhood-when the knowledge of her mother's Recreancy, undermining her sense of responsibility by the condoning suggestion of heredity, had made her quick to excuse her lack of self-control.
"The Iron Woman"
Margaret Deland
Tony and Recreancy could not go together.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith