Recant is valid Scrabble Word

Is recant a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is recant valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for RECANT in dictionary:

VERB:

to make a formal retraction
say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical
withdraw (a statement or belief) publicly
To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make a formal retraction or disavowal of

Words related to RECANT

recantation13 recantations14 recanted11 recanter10 recanters11 recanting12 recants9

Words that contain RECANT

recants9 recanted11 recanter10 recanters11 recanting12 recantation13 recantations14

How to use RECANT in a sentence

Six several times was he induced to recant the doctrines he had preached, and profess an allegiance which could only be a solemn mockery.
That being the case, it would follow of necessity that some people would impute to her a willingness to recant.
But as to what stood on sound truth and the Word of God, he could not recant it.
The rack, and then the stake, were all that remained, unless she could be prevailed on to recant.
After all, the omission of these two chapters, in which I find nothing to recant, improves, as I am told, the general balance of the book.
But she gave him her friendship, and having given it would not recant from her secret vow to be honest with it and with him.
He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
Johnson no sooner discovered the iniquitous conduct and designs of Lauder, than he compelled him to confess and recant, in the following letter to the reverend Mr.
Now this view, unjust, unfounded, I recant with deep remorse, Knowing you are not compounded From the carcase of the horse.
It was used against the new astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant.

With a refinement of cruelty unknown to his predecessors, he employed torture for the purpose of forcing them to recant.
He himself, if he did not publicly recant his errors and burn his books within sixty days, was pronounced an obstinate heretic, excommunicated and delivered over to Satan.
Seven bishops arrayed him in priestly garb and warned him to recant while yet there was time.
We do know, however, that he was asked to recant, and we know he refused.
Galileo should recant in order to keep the people from thinking Pope Urban would allow what his predecessors would not.
We will not, however, press you now to recant your errors.
Pressure was brought to bear upon the believers to recant their faith and to renounce allegiance to the Cause they had espoused.
Nevertheless when the king told him he must either recant or lose his life he did not flinch.
A determined effort was made to force the priest to recant, and when this failed Leyba leaped upon him, kicking and beating him.
Later experiments gave no results, and the friars were severely punished, and obliged to recant their charges against Madame de Mesmin.
This was counted by the Catholic Church a horrible blasphemy, and the Diet of Worms was called, and Luther was commanded to appear before it and recant.
In fact, I revert to the traditional view of Jupiter, recant my heresy, and am gathered like a lost sheep into the fold of mythological orthodoxy.
That paper was a letter from the Pope to Luther, telling him that if he did not recant from all he was teaching in less than sixty days, the Pope would give him over to Satan.
The bishop failed to confuse her and at last condemned her to death for heresy, bidding her recant if she would live.
Her last thought was of others and De Quincy says, that recant was no more in her mind than on her lips.
A man who has truly loved, though he may come to recognise the thousand incidental illusions into which love may have led him, will not recant its essential faith.
In vindicating his ideal he does not recant his human nature.
If I seem to recant, it is in view of the hopeful change that has come over the spirit of the Manchu Government.
If they will not recant, the prior will give them over to the Lord of Mortimer, who will see that they suffer as heretics are wont to do.
Perhaps you had best stand up and recant it before you take your hiding.
And he was not asked to recant, but only to accept what he had always deemed the very essence of statesmanship, a compromise.

Find what other words can be done using letters: "recant"
https://scrabble-word.com/finder/recant

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.