Hypertext Webster Gateway: "recantation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Recantation \Re`can*ta"tion\, n.
The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former
one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction;
retraction.
The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and
forced to make a public recantation. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
recantation
n : a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: {retraction},
{abjuration}]
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