the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being recreant.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being recreant; a cowardly yielding; mean-spiritedness.
Word Usage
"Nationalism without Socialism - without a reorganisation of society on the basis of a broader and more developed form of that common property which underlay the social structure of Ancient Erin - is only national recreancy."