0 present participle of recant
1 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
Behaviors that inhibit autonomy include recanting without having been persuaded, overpersonalizing the argument, and using pressuring statements.
But the fact that we still have to live this through is no excuse for repeating our errors, no excuse for not recanting.
It is no good recanting or explaining it away.
They trot out totems, imagining that they expand the bounds of human freedom by merely recanting them.
Governments and central bankers are now recanting with all the fervour of heretics about to be burnt at the stake.
When recanting a negative event, humans that receive intranasal oxytocin share more emotional details and stories with more emotional significance.
Less than two months after they gave a press conference, recanting their earlier statements, the doctors were released, and reinstated in their profession.
The letter stressed that she was not recanting her accusation.
