Definition of Recantations

1. Noun. (plural of recantation) ¹

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Definition of Recantations

1. recantation [n] - See also: recantation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recantations

recanalization
recanalizations
recanalize
recanalized
recanalizes
recanalizing
recane
recaned
recanes
recaning
recanned
recanning
recans
recant
recantation
recantations
recanted
recanter
recanters
recanting
recants
recap
recapacitate
recapacitated
recapacitates
recapacitating

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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