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recantation

/ri-kant/US // rɪˈkænt //UK // (rɪˈkænt) //

悔过书,忏悔,忏悔书,悔过自新

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to withdraw or disavow, especially formally; retract.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to withdraw or disavow a statement, opinion, etc., especially formally.

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Examples

  • Still, the recantation required Baur to notify a judge and let the courts decide it credible or not.

  • Nevertheless, his recantation was a fall, and in the eyes of the scientific world perhaps greater than that of Bacon.

  • But after his recantation his detention was made less severe and he was allowed many alleviations.

  • A recantation would only add to the dishonour of the Church of Rome, and raise an universal cry of accusation against her.

  • The old man's voice trembled and he looked wistfully in Azora's face in hopes of seeing some sign of her recantation.

  • The recantation so given has to be confirmed a day or two later, under pain of a precisely similar ordeal.