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recant
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to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)
- The Inquisition forced Galileo to recant his support of the Copernican observation that the earth revolves around the sun.
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abjure, renounce, forswear, recant, retract mean to withdraw one's word or professed belief. abjure implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath.
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- abjured the errors of his former faith
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- renounced abstract art and turned to portrait painting
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- I cannot forswear my principles
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- if they recant they will be spared
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- the newspaper had to retract the story
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