What does recant mean?

Definitions for recant
rɪˈkæntre·cant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resileverb

    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

    "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

Wiktionary

  1. recantverb

    To withdraw from or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.

    Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

  2. Etymology: First attested in 1535, from recantare, present active infinitive of recanto, from re- + canto, frequentative of cano.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To RECANTverb

    To retract; to recall; to contradict what one has once said or done.

    Etymology: recanto, Lat.

    He shall do this, or else I do recant
    The pardon that I late pronounced. William Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven.

    Ease would recant vows made in pain. John Milton.

    If it be thought, that the praise of a translation consists in adding new beauties, I shall be willing to recant. Dryden.

    That the legislature should have power to change the succession, whenever the necessities of the kingdom require, is so useful towards preserving our religion and liberty, that I know not how to recant. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. recant

    Recantation means a personal public act of denial of a previously published opinion or belief. It is derived from the Latin "re cantare", to re-sing.

ChatGPT

  1. recant

    Recant refers to the act of withdrawing, retracting, or disavowing a previously held belief, statement, or claim, often formally or publicly. It typically involves admitting a change of one's opinion or stance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Recantverb

    to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall

  2. Recantverb

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Recant

    rē-kant′, 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.

Anagrams for recant »

  1. canter

  2. carnet

  3. centra

  4. Cretan

  5. nectar

  6. trance

  7. creant

  8. tanrec

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of recant in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of recant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of recant in a Sentence

  1. Nate Lance:

    They will try to force them to convert, and if they refuse, they are banned from their villages, unable to live with or see their families, when they refuse to recant their faith, they are expelled from the community.

  2. Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.:

    I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

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