0 past simple and past participle of recant
1 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
In these forums farmers routinely recanted, switching from pro to anti and back again, and charges of fraud were commonplace.
But some linkage analyses have been found to be faulty and been recanted.
The list goes on, and includes more than a few who recanted their uncritical enthusiasm in later years.
While the majority of prisoners duly recanted their beliefs, those who could appeal to sympathetic gaolers or state officials found the prospects more propitious.
After 1607 virtually all those who recanted officially before a bishop were required to take the oath of allegiance (though not necessarily the oath of supremacy).
They have recanted, which is total hypocrisy and total opportunism.
Ultimately, the health authority recanted on those proposals and the hospital was secured, along with the maternity unit.
I believe that he has subsequently recanted on absolutely everything that he originally said.
