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Significados de recant en inglés

portugués
abjurar
catalán
retractar-se

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

abjurar
Uso de recant en inglés
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Does it mean I recant on everything I've ever said or done?
The Guardian
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All I had to do was recant and I'd be all right.
Life
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Pointing to her parents, they implored her for their sake to recant.
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
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Many were put to death because they refused to recant their faith.
The Guardian
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Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now?
Vanity Fair
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Ordered to say yes or no to the question 'Will you then recant?'
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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Paris fully expected Peter to recant everything he had said the night before.
Dating game
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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,...
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Threaten him with burning at the stake if he fails to recant; 2.
The Irish Times
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It was used against the new astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant.
The New Revelation
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He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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The prisoner must recant on oath his statement that he is the Sunchild.
Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
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They all said that he did not recant in any manner.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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Castell was a brave man; no torments would make him recant.
Fair Margaret
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The conquerors offered them their lives-sosay the French stories-ifthey would recant.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
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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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