0 the act of announcing in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
I listened carefully to him today, in the expectation of hearing some recantation before he took on the rôle of poacher turned gamekeeper.
Spinning the end of spin is not sufficient—genuine recantation and reform are needed rather than just the presentation of them.
What happened needed public criticism in order to get public recantation.
I hope, therefore, that there will be some recantation this afternoon.
Alternatively, might we have to consider the possibility of legislative recantation post facto?
This is the moment for repentence and recantation.
I do not think that we should ask for a recantation.
Instead of a recantation, we heard a most unusual tribute to the tax dodgers, which seemed altogether irrelevant to his case.
