Webster's 1828 Dictionary
RECANTATION
n.The act of recalling; retraction; a declaration that contradicts a former one.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
RECANTATION
RECANTATION Re `can *ta "tion, n.
Defn: The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
New American Oxford Dictionary
recantation
re can ta tion |ˌrēˌkanˈtāSHən riːkænˈteɪʃn | ▶noun a statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction: every writer interprets Galileo's recantation in a different way.
Oxford Dictionary
recantation
recantation |ˌriːkanˈteɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun a statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction: every writer interprets Galileo's recantation in a different way.
American Oxford Thesaurus
recantation
recantation noun an unconvincing recantation: renunciation, renouncement, disavowal, denial, repudiation, retraction, withdrawal.
Oxford Thesaurus
recantation
recantation noun renunciation, renouncement, disavowal, denial, repudiation, retraction, withdrawal; apostasy; rare abjuration, retractation.
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