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According to popular legend, after being forced to recant his theory that the Earth moved around the Sun, Galileo whispered, "And yet it moves."recant = say he no longer believed (something previously said)
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Knowing he risked execution, Luther refused to renounce his opinions, saying "I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience."
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I imagined my surrender, imagined closing my eyes and recanting my blasphemies. (source)recanting = publically saying I no longer believe (something)
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Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life. (source)recant = renounce (take back what was said before)
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All that had been said before had sounded so like a recantation that these words were too great a shock. (source)recantation = change of mind from what was said before
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Before she had committed herself by any public profession of eternal friendship for Jane Fairfax, or done more towards a recantation of past prejudices and errors, than saying to Mr. Knightley, "She certainly is handsome; she is better than handsome!" (source)recantation = taking back
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He told us about being pressured by the sheriff and the ABI and threatened with the death penalty if he didn't testify against McMillian He made accusations of official corruption, talked about his involvement in the Pittman murder, and revealed his earlier attempts to recant.† (source)
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Every sound of his voice beginning on the old subject stirred her with a terrifying bliss, and she coveted the recantation she feared.† (source)recantation = a statement that formally rejects or disavows a formerly held beliefstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Even Galileo recanted when he saw they really meant to go through with it!† (source)
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Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.† (source)
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Sometimes though, for the women, they're for a nun who recants.† (source)
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Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,—places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,—and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.† (source)recantations = statements that formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
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I might have this wrong, and that's why I was going to wait and go through this with you face to face, but I think she wants to recant.† (source)
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I'll make her howl a recantation!'† (source)recantation = a statement that formally rejects or disavows a formerly held belief
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Fifty-three recanted within the year.† (source)
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It may be that Adela does panic in the face of Nothingness, only recovering herself when she takes responsibility by recanting in the witness box.† (source)
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