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Another word for recant

recant Synonyms

recant

v.

retract, revoke, renounce, disavow, disclaim, abjure, deny, take back, cancel, back down, back out, withdraw, rescind, abrogate, forswear, contradict, repudiate, abnegate, annul, void, countermand, recall, call back, disown, unsay, nullify, repeal, draw in one's horns*, eat crow*, be of another mind*, eat humble pie*, eat one's words*, eat one's hat*; see also abandon 1.

Antonyms acknowledge*, maintain, proclaim.

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Another word for recant

verb

To disavow (something previously written or said) irrevocably and usually formally:

abjure, recall, retract, take back, withdraw. See accept

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Attempts were made by the officials to induce him to recant, but without effect.
He was compelled to recant, under strong pressure from Pope Innocent III.
Barnes was forced to apologize and recant; and Gardiner delivered a series of sermons at St Paul's Cross to counteract Barnes' invective.
After he had been tied to the stake and the faggots had been piled, he was for the last time urged to recant, but his only reply was: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me.
Berengar in a weak moment in 1059 was forced by the pope to recant and assert that " the true body and blood are not only a sacrament, but in truth touched and broken by the hands of the priests and pressed by the teeth of the faithful," and this position remains in every Roman catechism.

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