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Another word for recant

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Verb

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

    See also:

    accept

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Another word for recant

Verb
  1. See also:

    abandon

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • But he now resisted pain better, and, although more than once a promise to recant was extorted from him, he reasserted his innocence when unbound, crying out, "My God, I denied Thee for fear of pain."

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