Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
1 Does it mean I recant on everything I've ever said or done?
2 All I had to do was recant and I'd be all right.
3 Pointing to her parents, they implored her for their sake to recant .
4 Many were put to death because they refused to recant their faith.
5 Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now?
6 Ordered to say yes or no to the question 'Will you then recant ? '
7 Paris fully expected Peter to recant everything he had said the night before.
8 I tell him I'll recant my story unless he includes me in his.
9 Threaten him with burning at the stake if he fails to recant ; 2.
10 It was used against the new astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant .
11 He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
12 The prisoner must recant on oath his statement that he is the Sunchild.
13 They all said that he did not recant in any manner.
14 Castell was a brave man; no torments would make him recant .
15 The conquerors offered them their lives-sosay the French stories-ifthey would recant .
16 Bossuet determined that the eloquent archbishop must be compelled to recant .
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