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Definition of Recantations
1. recantation [n] - See also: recantation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recantations
Literary usage of Recantations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Cambridge by Charles Henry Cooper, John William Cooper (1845)
"On the 10th of February, the House of Commons ordered the Speaker to write to
both Universities for copies of all recantations censures and submissions, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"heretics knelt and read their recantations, or, if obstinate, were marched off
to Smithfield. Here miserable men and women suspected of witchcraft confessed ..."
3. The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards by John Strype, William Elstob (1821)
"I SHALL not make observations upon these foregoing Popish ri- recantations, though
many might be made; only I cannot^™As0" but observe two or three things ..."
4. Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period by S. Hubert Burke (1893)
"CHAPTER V. THE recantations—THE SEQUEL. AT last the final decision arrived from
Rome, which was confirmed by the Queen and her Council . ..."
5. Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion: With Notes and by Thomas Moore (1833)
"Variations of creed.—Persecutions and burnings.—recantations of Cranmer, Latimer,
&c.—Effects of the Reformation in demoralizing the people. ..."
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