Definition of Recantation

1. Noun. A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.

Exact synonyms: Abjuration, Retraction
Generic synonyms: Disavowal, Disclaimer
Specialized synonyms: Backdown, Climb-down, Withdrawal
Derivative terms: Abjure, Recant, Retract

Definition of Recantation

1. n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Definition of Recantation

1. Noun. the act of recanting or something recanted ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recantation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recantation

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Literary usage of Recantation

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

1. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1891)
"The Queen was pleased that he had so humbled himself, even though she regretted that his recantation was published, and is said never to have believed in ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, David Jardine (1816)
"The tenor and stile of the first clauses of this Recantation, ... S. This pretended Recantation has no date to it, as bishop Unmet truly observes ; and the ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"The tenor and stile of the first clauses of this Recantation, ... This pretended Recantation has no date to it, as bishop Burnet truly observes ; and the ..."

4. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"Master Hierome, the points of whose recantation are here detailed, was William Jerome, vicar of Stepney, to which living he had been presented on May 29th, ..."

5. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"143-151, has given the Sentence and Recantation in a Latin text which agrees precisely with Ric- ..."

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