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Definition of Recant

1. Verb. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. "She abjured her beliefs"

Definition of Recant

1. v. t. To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.

2. v. i. To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

Definition of Recant

1. Verb. To withdraw from or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recant

1. to make a formal retraction or disavowal of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recant

Literary usage of Recant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"recant, in Latin recanto, is compounded of the privative re and canto, ... REVOKE and RECALL have the same original sense as recant, with this difference ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison, Joseph Torrey (1858)
"... to perish at the stake; but though he should recant, he never should be allowed to preach or to teach again, nor permitted to return to Bohemia; for, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Then followed his degradation—he was enrobed in priestly vestments and again asked to recant; again he refused. With curses his ornaments were taken from ..."

4. The Commonwealth at War by Albert Frederick Pollard (1917)
"THE recant OF PATRIOTISM.1 " THE honourable member," replied Lord John ... It is not that we are suffering from that academic recant of patriotism of which ..."

5. Faction Detected, by the Evidence of Facts: Containing an Impartial View of by John Perceval Egmont (1743)
"... but they were brought to repent, and forced to recant at laft ? Whether they ever knew their Men, or faw their Danger, ..."

6. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1877)
"When a final, definite answer to the question whether he would recant, was demanded, he replied that his conscience would not permit him: " Here I stand; ..."

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