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Meanings of recant in English

Portuguese
abjurar
Catalan
retractar-se

Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.

        abjurar
        Usage of recant in English
        1
        Does it mean I recant on everything I've ever said or done?
        The Guardian
        2
        All I had to do was recant and I'd be all right.
        Life
        3
        Pointing to her parents, they implored her for their sake to recant.
        Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
        4
        Many were put to death because they refused to recant their faith.
        The Guardian
        5
        Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now?
        Vanity Fair
        6
        Ordered to say yes or no to the question 'Will you then recant?'
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
        7
        Paris fully expected Peter to recant everything he had said the night before.
        Dating game
        8
        I tell him I'll recant my story unless he includes me in his.
        Mass casualties: a young medic's true story of death, deception,...
        9
        Threaten him with burning at the stake if he fails to recant; 2.
        The Irish Times
        10
        It was used against the new astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant.
        The New Revelation
        11
        He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
        History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
        12
        The prisoner must recant on oath his statement that he is the Sunchild.
        Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
        13
        They all said that he did not recant in any manner.
        Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
        14
        Castell was a brave man; no torments would make him recant.
        Fair Margaret
        15
        The conquerors offered them their lives-sosay the French stories-ifthey would recant.
        Prose Idylls, New and Old
        16
        Bossuet determined that the eloquent archbishop must be compelled to recant.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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