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:
In these forums farmers routinely recanted, switching from pro to anti and back again, and charges of fraud were commonplace.
His book caused such a southern uproar that he was forced to recant in 1861.
But some linkage analyses have been found to be faulty and been recanted.
Behaviors that inhibit autonomy include recanting without having been persuaded, overpersonalizing the argument, and using pressuring statements.
The list goes on, and includes more than a few who recanted their uncritical enthusiasm in later years.
A selection with this pronunciation is: rebut, recant, reduce, refresh, refuse, regret, relent, remove, repeat, repute, requite, resemble, resist, retain, reveal, revolt and reward.
This shock led commentators and practitioners (many of whose doubts had never been fully allayed) publicly 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.
