Definitionn. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
Last update: August 26, 2015
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Northumberland's recantation had done much to discredit the Reformation, Cranmer's, it was hoped, would complete the work. [Please select]
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In this connexion I make free recantation of one heresy: I no longer desire open diplomacy. [Please select]
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All that had been said before had sounded so like a recantation that these words were too great a shock. [Please select]
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"If I have preached and written anything heretical," said this intrepid monk, "I am willing to make a public recantation." [Please select]
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Nevertheless, his recantation was a fall, and in the eyes of the scientific world perhaps greater than that of Bacon. [Please select]
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This may have been the punishment of his recantation,--not Inquisitorial torture, but the consciousness that he had lost his honor. [Please select]
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His listeners read his purpose and it suited them to let him think they accepted every word of his remarkable recantation. [Please select]
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Their humiliating return and recantation broke the 'Golden Chain' of Hellenic thought for ever. [Please select]
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The Whigs had to disavow any approval of the Jacobins; Mackintosh, who had given his answer to Burke's diatribes, met Burke himself on friendly terms (9th July 1797), and in 1800 took an opportunity of public recantation. [Please select]
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He therefore read his recantation at the beginning of his career, and entered life as an avowed Whig and friend of the Hanover succession. [Please select]
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