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A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
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recantation
Word definitions for recantation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recantation \Re`can*ta"tion\ (r[=e]`k[a^]n*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the act of recanting or something recanted
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: retraction , abjuration ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recantation means a personal public act of denial of a previously published opinion or belief . It is derived from the Latin retractionem (the nominative form of the verb retractio or the past participle of the noun retractareto , meaning "to pull back"). ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, noun of action from recant .
Usage examples of recantation.
His wife had a nobler soul than he, as she wanted to sell all they had, and to take refuge in Holland rather than submit to the shame of a recantation.
There must be a test by which to separate the opposing elements so as to build only from the sound, and that test is a sufficiently liberal one which accepts as sound whoever will make a sworn recantation of his former unsoundness.
At the head of an Italian synod, Celestine weighed the merits of the cause, approved the creed of Cyril, condemned the sentiments and person of Nestorius, degraded the heretic from his episcopal dignity, allowed a respite of ten days for recantation and penance, and delegated to his enemy the execution of this rash and illegal sentence.
His wife had a nobler soul than he, as she wanted to sell all they had, and to take refuge in Holland rather than submit to the shame of a recantation.
Perhaps Helvetius would have followed the noble advice of his wife if he had foreseen that this monstrous recantation would make his book into a fraud.
Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness, -- places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience, -- and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.
The former archbishop wept at the loss of his primacy and when, ten days later, the Queen signed his death warrant, he capitulated and issued a series of abject recantations, having been led by the authorities to believe that his life would be spared.
The Council might deliberate over whether political capital might be made of making Cranmer's recantations public - in the end they were suppressed — but the former archbishop's fate was certain.
Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the happiness of feeling that they are irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything in quietness—places, sinecurés, honours, power rightly or wrongly acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treasons, savoury capitulations of conscience, and that they will enter their graves with their digestion completed.
The result was that many suspected loyalists were subjected to public interrogation, and public confessions and recantations became a feature of the revolutionary scene.
Once decided, decided he would stay—no recriminations or recantations for him.
She opened the door and there chapter by chapter, page by page was The Book of Recantation, the other sacred book she had memorized.
She had directed Mother to Thrip them into the cubicle Kell, where she had with trembling bloody hands withdrawn The Book of Recantation from the shadowed Ja-Gaar's mouth.
She had directed Mother to Thrip them into the cubicle Kell, where she had with trem-bling bloody hands withdrawn The Book of Recantation from the shad-owed Ja-Gaar's mouth.