0 the act of announcing in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
Galileo's recantation of his belief in the Copernican system
Prosecutors will dismiss a case upon the recantation of a victim.
The girl's recantation came after the court's 21-day limit.
The straightforward legal action called for a combined conclusion for damages, a financial penalty, and a recantation (plus, of course, the expenses of the case).
He really indicated, even today, that it was a deathbed recantation.
It would have been a total recantation of everything that he has stood for in his political life.
I am all the more pleased to have this recantation.
That came into my mind when he spoke of recantations.
