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    1. their souls should you decide to recant later


    2. ‘Can’t she be allowed to recant? Burning seems a


    3. ” In those early times the latter were forced to recant their beliefs at the threat of their lives, mirroring the recantations of the early Christians as they faced death by persecution


    4. 12–14, 1518) and refused to recant a sentence…which Cajetan interpreted as implying a rejection of the teaching authority of the pope…He [Luther] undertook historical studies and concluded that the authority which was claimed in the Roman church for the papacy could be supported only by Papal decretals of the preceding four centuries


    5. forced to recant his position


    6. It seems that the High Priest expected Jesus to recant, and that they did not


    7. Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition and forced to recant his beliefs


    8. and idolatry they would recant


    9. we could never recant!


    10. He will refuse to recant his words

    11. “How is she going to recant what she already told the police?”


    12. IRS and pay the taxes on your wager, and even recant on your


    13. I now wish to recant what was previously said, and ask that Terry Warner, father of Charlie Warner aka Cheesecake Charlie, accept my humble apologises


    14. Sandra’s gavel hovered, as if giving the other woman a chance to recant


    15. She takes the path for hours, never stopping to recant, never pausing to catch a lost breath


    16. Chin stopped the man and said, “But I’ll file an amendment with the IRS and pay the taxes on your wager, and even recant on your losing ticket that you filed for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a fifteen-to-one long-shot, giving you two hundred and fifty thousand legitimate tax-free dollars to be wired into your personal checking account within the hour


    17. He was merely honest about certain unpleasant political facts which he refused to publicly recant


    18. Only, these grass-root communities were later infiltrated by Christian preachers who started telling them that they were doing it all wrong, and that they should recant their original vows of complete poverty; and exclusively worship the dead martyr of their movement and follow his corrupted sayings as interpreted by the corrupted Christian missionaries


    19. Prison guards regularly attempt to get Christian prisoners to recant their faith


    20. They were put under severe pressure to recant their faith but refused to do so

    21. I saw the release of such darkly tainted material to my own people as a recant of my sworn duty to protect them from something I could prevent


    22. I started to say something to recant my use of the word ‘crazy’, but she cut me off


    23. With that, she strode off, giving Randy no time to recant his words


    24. “Maybe you should go ahead and officially recant your testimony?”


    25. In other words, I did not expect to hear it stated that the principles of the Administration of the predecessor of Jefferson, which, I suppose, he would now be as ready to recant as any man in the nation, justified the bill; that it ought to be passed, because it was fashioned in conformity to such doctrines


    1. “They have recanted their oaths to the Emperor and Empire


    2. They haven’t merely recanted their oaths, they have declared war upon everything the Empire stands for


    3. At first he would not do it, but later recanted when she


    4. He recanted his teachings, but later he


    5. Eight eye witnesses recanted their stories and two turned up missing - permanently,” he said


    6. My main witness, the ONLY railway safety inspector in AZ, perjured himself on the witness stand, totally recanted his written and prior oral statements placing total blame on the SP


    7. I remembered the look on Steven’s face as he recanted the story


    8. Gary David then recanted the story of CN, and what had happened when he met Nick Adams earlier


    9. When faced with a recording of the events under discussion, they recanted


    10. Out of nowhere he was intercepted and flown back to Chicago and arrested there for trying to solicit a bribe for some document that he didn’t have, and hurried through a trial and into prison, even though one of the witnesses recanted his testimony as lies

    11. she had verbally recanted to the Chief of Police and Detective


    12. important to him, he probably would have quit pursuing his dreams and resented his father for many years to come if he wouldn‘t have recanted his statement


    13. Eilidh initially appreciated the elf’s disregard for her own appearance, but then recanted this thought when the elf stood once more without a speck of dust sticking to her fantastically adorned outer robe


    14. ” And in light of her apparent confession that she had verbally recanted to the Chief of Police and Detective Dane Andrews of the Briggs County Police Department


    15. So I cut out her heart while she recanted of her treasonous betrayal of the sacred trust bestowed on her as a high priestess


    16. When he rode down the streets, smiling, tipping recanted his Republican heresies and given his time and money and labor and thought his hat, the small blue bundle that was Bonnie perched before him on his saddle, Whereas, she, Scarlett— everyone smiled back, spoke with enthusiasm and looked with affection on the little girl


    17. She has recanted her testimony


    18. “He recanted his confession of the hotel murders, but that’s the DA’s problem


    19. “The cops tried, but the DA knew they couldn’t indict me on Junie’s flaky confession, especially since she, whatcha-callit, recanted


    20. Borís has perished, Vasíly Nikonórovich has recanted

    1. Depending on what type of criminal behavior the person was soliciting, recanting might also require notifying the police in order to prevent subsequent criminal conduct from unfolding


    2. Just so you know there’s no shame in righting a wrong, Peggy is currently in the process of recanting that alibi


    3. They also reassured each other that the gun dealer’s recanting of his earlier testimony was meaningless


    1. In some cases, a person is not liable for solicitation if he or she recants their intention to commit the subsequent crime, and notifies the other person that their request is off the table


    2. It is a song which tells the story of the world, a melody which recants the tragedy that destroyed this place and took everything beautiful and solemn from it


    3. Then he recants and says one hundred and sixty thousand a year


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    Synonyms for "recant"

    abjure forswear recant resile retract revoke recall repeal rescind withdraw countermand

    "recant" definitions

    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure