recantation

recant | American Dictionary

recant
verb[ I/T ]
us/rɪˈkænt/
to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong or not true and that you no longer agree with them:
[ I ]Anderson recanted, saying his brother had told him to lie.

Examples of recant

recant
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.
It would not be proper for me to recant.
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.
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).
Hence, sourcemonitoring questions were unsuccessful in prompting children to recant their assents to misinformation.
There has been no delay and nothing to recant in the way of decisions made.
From the
Hansard archive