Recantation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECANTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of recanting
• a statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction
• The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
• a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly; renounce

Words related to RECANTATION

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Words that contain RECANTATION

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How to use RECANTATION in a sentence

• Nevertheless, his recantation was a fall, and in the eyes of the scientific world perhaps greater than that of Bacon.
• Naevius was put in prison for these and similar sallies, and was obliged to remain there, till he had publicly made amends and recantation in other comedies.
• Being resolved now to proceed to extremities, and, if necessary, to form a new congregation, they drew up the following recantation and sent it to Dr.
• But nothing like a recantation could be wrung from him.
• Every sound of his voice beginning on the old subject stirred her with a terrifying bliss, and she coveted the recantation she feared.
• Knowing well that Truth has no need of martyrs, he assented to the required recantation, and gave the promise demanded.
• Although she had not mistaken these speeches for anything more than the nervous passion of a moment, the suddenness of the recantation surprised her a little.
• I had no such reputation as that of Hume or Andrew Jackson Davis, which would call for a public statement of my recantation.
• He held a private interview with the reformer, and endeavored, by all those arts at the disposal of an emperor, to influence Luther to a recantation.
• Many of the constitutional priests sign a recantation of their oaths, and not enough are found to fill the vacant cures.
• Bucello of Padua and Alessio of Bellinzona, upon recantation, were subjected to public penances and confessions for different terms of years.
• The emperor insisted on a simple recantation, which Luther declared he could not make.
• His listeners read his purpose and it suited them to let him think they accepted every word of his remarkable recantation.
• Also, the letter he wrote was very different from the document of penitence and recantation that Bates had advised, and now supposed him to be writing.
• Thereupon, as if chanting a recantation, he was once more a suppliant, offering pitiable explanations to Pacurius.
• Arriving at Rome, he had several audiences with the Pope, who said nothing would answer but a specific recantation.
• But there is no reason, most blessed Father, why any one should assume that I am to utter a recantation, unless he prefers to involve the case in still greater confusion.
• Failing in this, the only alternative will be recantation or withdrawal from the Presbyterian Communion.
• Stowe says, that these Arians were offered their pardon at the stake, if they would merit it by a recantation.
• But no recantation, no assurance of conformity, could save the relapsed heretic.
• It was in consequence of this war in his mind, that he wrote a beautiful poem called The Recantation.
• After his book was licensed, they forced him to retract it by a most abject recantation.
• Here I vow a recantation to those malicious faults I ever did against you.
• After the Restoration, he was one of the first to read a poetical recantation of his errors in verses addressed to Charles II.
• Helen could tell him, if she liked, but she must not encourage him to hope for a recantation of all she had said to him.
• The board then required them to sign a paper saying they did not intend an insult, and those who did not make such recantation were discharged.
• The renegade son served the renegade and ungrateful mother ill when he advised her to write what is a barefaced recantation of her former statements.
• Indeed, he waited until the day of his execution before withdrawing his recantation, and confounded his enemies on the way to the stake.

Similar words containing CANTA without suffix tion and without prefix re

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