0 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them -- 公开宣布放弃（以前的信仰）
They were forced to recant bit by bit, step by step, and they have done so meanly and uneasily and expensively all the time.
Ultimately, the health authority recanted on those proposals and the hospital was secured, along with the maternity unit.
This shock led commentators and practitioners (many of whose doubts had never been fully allayed) publicly to recant.
The list goes on, and includes more than a few who recanted their uncritical enthusiasm in later years.
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.
There has been no delay and nothing to recant in the way of decisions made.
His book caused such a southern uproar that he was forced to recant in 1861.
While the majority of prisoners duly recanted their beliefs, those who could appeal to sympathetic gaolers or state officials found the prospects more propitious.
