▪ I. recreance1
(ˈrɛkrɪəns)
[ad. L. type *recreantia, f. recreāre: see recreate v.1]
Recreation, refreshment.
| c 1475 Lament. Mary Magd. lxi, I shuld anone deuoid al my greuaunce, For he is the blisse of very recreaunce. 1581 N. Woodes Confl. Consc. Prol. iv, Our Author Bethought himselfe, to ease his heart, some recreance to fynde. 1842 Tupper Prov. Philos. Ser. ii. 207 Sleep is a recreance to body. 1876 Ruskin Fors Clav. lxiii. 92 Such recreance as that in Mr. Ryman's shop. |
▪ II. ˈrecreance2
[f. recreant a.]
= next.
| 1879 Howells L. Aroostook xxvi. 314 Grieving at this recreance of her memory to her conscience. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 103 To give the pledge, and yet be joined That a pledge should have force to bind, This, O Soul, too often still Is the recreance of thy will! |