Sentence examples for recant from inspiring English sources
The word 'recant' is correct and usable in written English. It means to take back, renounce or publicly retract a previous statement or opinion. Example: The presidential candidate recanted his previous statement when he realized it was controversial.
Luther was given 60 days upon receiving the bull to recant and another 60 days to report his recantation to Rome.
A German battalion is likely to be based in Alsace-Lorraine, a region repeatedly fought over by the two countries in the past.The pope ordered a traditionalist bishop, Richard Williamson, whom he had recently readmitted to the Catholic church, to recant on his denials of the Holocaust.
Even after it was clear that the athletes were innocent, 87 faculty members published a letter categorically rejecting calls to recant their condemnation.
When Egypt's culture minister casually told an interviewer that he personally considered veiling a backward practice, the ensuing public outcry forced him to recant.
Like many influential people out of favour with the authotities and accused of being "false" messiahs, he was forced to recant on state television, confessing that he had been against the Islamic Republic's core tenets.
Anyone who doubted that a surge in equity issuance from indebted companies is coming should recant after events in the mining industry.
"We are Starting to Sing a New Song", Luther's first venture into the news-ballad genre, told the story of two monks who had been executed in Brussels in 1523 after refusing to recant their Lutheran beliefs.
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