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Definition of Recreance
1. n. Recreancy.
Definition of Recreance
1. Noun. (dated form of recreancy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recreance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recreance
Literary usage of Recreance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"F. 'Lettres de recreance, qui se dit, soit des lettres qu'un Prince envoie a son
... Diet. de l'Acad., 1762 ; ' recreance, a restoral, restitution; also, ..."
2. Commentaries Upon International Law by Robert Phillimore (1882)
"He afterwards usually receives, in return, letters or papers to facilitate his
return (what are termed lettres de recreance (ft), ..."
3. A History of Continental Criminal Procedure: With Special Reference to France by Adhémar Esmein, John Simpson, René Garraud, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (1913)
"1"recreance" means causing the person arrested to give security to again put ...
1583) : " If any one desire to have bail (' recreance') in any matter, ..."
4. Commenentaries Upon International Law by Sir Robert Phillimore (1854)
"He afterwards usually receives, in return, letters or papers to facilitate his
return (what are termed lettres de recreance^ ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1852)
"This is not right; this is recreance to the old chival- ric honour of our
ministry—it is recreance to the honour of our Master in heaven. ..."
6. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Il recouvre ses défauts d'un vernis de politesse, he conceals—hided—masks—his
faults with the appearance of politeness. recreance, sf (t.de diplomatie). ..."
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