Definition of Recantation. Meaning of Recantation. Synonyms of Recantation

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Definition of Recantation

Recantation
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.

Meaning of Recantation from wikipedia

- memorable dramatic effect, recantation was used to briefly redefine the material subject fairly and honestly. In religion, recantation may be required to avoid...
- converse. In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation, the Inquisition's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction...
- sought post-judgment relief based on Crowell Webb's recantation, but the trial court found her recantation to be unbelievable and refused to free him. The...
- John Falstaff from Henry IV as a source for ideas in A Recantation. Both Henry IV and A Recantation reference Gad's Hill, the place of the robbery in Henry...
- murder, though recanted his confessions of both crimes. Since his arrest, Hall has confessed to more than thirty-five murders, recanting them all. However...
- recantation was issued on 18 March. It was a sign of a broken man, a sweeping confession of sin. Despite the sti****tion in canon law that recanting heretics...
- Title page, An Answere unto the Con****ation of John Nichols his Recantation, in all pointes of any weight conteyned in the same especially in the matters...
- out in the spring of 1593 to make a recantation before the ****embled church dignitaries of the place. This recantation has been preserved by the Jesuit Delrio...
- Robert Arnauld d'Andilly – Stances pour Jésus-Christ John Clavell – A Recantation of an Ill Led Life Sir John Coke – The First Part of the Institutes of...
- in 1951 with the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, ****an does not recant on its claims that the Liancourt Rocks are ****anese territory. In 2009,...