Recantation

Word RECANTATION
Character 11
Hyphenation re can ta tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Recantation"

What do we mean by recantation?

The act of recanting or something recanted.

When you can't even, then the situation comes up again so you can't even all over again. Urban Dictionary

After Someone argue,give opinion,allege,and assist his or her thought, he or she does not accept or withdraw his or her previous comment or conviction. Urban Dictionary

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The word "recantation" in example sentences

The cardinal plainly told him so; and as it is, he has signed a paper which they call a recantation of heresy. ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

The girl then recanted – only to admit later that her recantation was a lie told in order to stay with her mother, the state argues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Very often, when you look at what the defense attorney now labels a recantation, you see that in fact the witness has not really recanted anything at all, but instead has merely asserted somehow or other that they think the individual is innocent usually in the abstract, without addressing specific factual questions or prior statements by that witness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But he says that to walk in that procession, to take part in that act of so-called recantation and reconciliation, would be in itself as a confession that those things which he had held and taught were heretical. ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

He often recanted, and the recantation was a thousand times worse than the thing recanted. ❋ Robert Green Ingersoll (1866)

To the Crown, however, a recantation is a red flag signalling that a woman has been pressured to drop her allegations. ❋ Kirk Makin (2011)

Their petition highlighted the seriously disturbing timing and the circumstances of the so-called recantation, describing that Nicole's counsel, Atty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a May 2004 interview with an investigator hired by the defense, the girl again acknowledged the attack and said the recantation was a lie.

As apologies that do not spring from changed minds mean nothing, this must be seen for what it is: the kind of recantation squeezed by an inquisition from some unfortunate, a denial of conscience for the sole purpose of grinding the dissenter's face into the dust, the better that he may eat his words. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am nibbling at what I must, after all, swallow -- my "recantation" [486] did seem to me a trifle discreditable! ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

Petraeus 'difference with Israel was over specific policies as they undermined the smooth operations of the US war machine in the Middle East and his' recantation 'before the Israelis has certainly thrown cold water of this romantic fantasy of a' nationalist 'US General. ❋ Haitham Sabbah (2010)

Bishop Richard Williamson, Holocaust denial, and the problem of "recantation" by cranks ❋ Orac [email protected] (2010)

Nicole's statement was not a "recantation" or a reversal of what she said during the trial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They could use the "recantation" angle to paint Nicole as a liar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition, the petitioners describe the CA's disclosure of the draft on Smith's acquittal after the media projection of Nicole's "recantation", as improper and prejudicial to the judicial process and outcome. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm recanting over this [English] [paper]. ❋ Ahyeet (2018)

Europian woman [politician] once said that she never support or give much [privilege] any woman-right's communities, but, just one week later, she recant her remarks on woman-right's [association] ,when addressing in front of the woman audience. ❋ Purinsy (2008)

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