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Recreancy   Listen
noun
Recreancy  n.  The quality or state of being recreant.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... pupils, and by the magic of her friendly intercourse won their confidence. Quick to discover any unusual promise in a pupil, she indefatigably and masterfully stirred up such a one to his or her best, sometimes with remarks of approval, or by censuring recreancy with stinging sarcasm, or with expressions of despair over infirmity of purpose. Some of such scholars, notably among them Charles Warren Stoddard, panned out gold in the field of letters. Many of her pupils, including ...
— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe



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