recantation
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
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Re·can·ta·tion
n. (rē`kăn*tā"shŬn)
The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation.Bp. Stillingfleet.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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recantation
noun
- A formal statement of disavowal: abjuration, palinode, retractation, retraction, withdrawal. See accept/reject.
