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recant : to renounce or withdraw (prior statements or testimony) [surprised the prosecution by ing statements made earlier to the police] vi : to renounce or withdraw prior statements or testimony re·can·ta·tion [rē-kan-tā-shən] n ...
Recanter
One who recants...
Recant
Recant, means to withdraw or renounce formally or publicly, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1274....
Recantation
The act of recanting a declaration that contradicts a former one that which is thus asserted in contradiction retraction...
Retractation
The act of retracting what has been said recantation...
Palinode
An ode recanting or retracting a former one also a repetition of an ode...
Recant
To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly opinions formerly expressed to contradict as a former declaration to take back openly to retract to recall...
Retractate
To retract to recant...
Abjuration
Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law, signified an oath taken by a person accused of crime who had claimed sanctuary (see that tile) to forsake the realm for ever. It was abolished by 12 Jac. 1, c. 28.The oath of abjuration (introduced by 13 Wm. 3, c. 16, and altered by 6 Geo. 3, c. 53) had to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.), engaging to support her, and promising to disclose all treasons and traitorous conspiracies against her, Staunforde Pl. C. b. 2, c. 40. By 21 & 22 Vict. C. 48, one form of oath was substituted for the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. For this form another was substituted by...
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