Recant
[rɪ'kænt]
Definition
(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.
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Retract, revoke, recall, annul, abjure.
v. n. Unsay what has been said, eat one's words.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Retract, unsay, recal, revoke, abjure, renounce
ANT:Propound, profess, assert, declare, enunciate, vindicate, maintain, hold,retain
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Definition
v.t. to withdraw (a former declaration): to retract.—v.i. to revoke a former declaration: to unsay what has been said esp. to declare one's renunciation of a religious belief which one formerly maintained.—ns. Rēcantā′tion act of recanting: a declaration contradicting a former one; Rēcant′er.
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Examples
- He replied that he could not recant until he was convinced of his error. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was told that it was his duty to recant if his superiors required it of him, whether he was convinced or not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already named the earlier astronomers, and told how Galileo was made to recant his assertion that the earth moved round the sun. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this, Luther, who had been asked to recant his views by Pope Leo X, and who had refused to do so, was summoned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was ordered to recant certain of his opinions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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