0 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them: --
1 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong or not true and that you no longer agree with them: --
They were forced to recant bit by bit, step by step, and they have done so meanly and uneasily and expensively all the time.
There is nothing to recant, and no qualifications to make.
There has been no delay and nothing to recant in the way of decisions made.
Hence, sourcemonitoring questions were unsuccessful in prompting children to recant their assents to misinformation.
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).
Darji said that the crime was so scandalous that it was cause for him to recant his decision to live his remaining years in retirement.
It would not be proper for me to recant.
While the majority of prisoners duly recanted their beliefs, those who could appeal to sympathetic gaolers or state officials found the prospects more propitious.
