public recantation

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For weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles.

From Time Magazine Archive

In spite of his advisers he determines to make a public recantation over the television-radio which would wreck the republic and his reputation.

From Time Magazine Archive

This design he communicated to some priests, who highly commended it, and a day was fixed upon for his public recantation.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

But at legnth, terrified by the threats of the papal church, he made a public recantation of his religious opinions.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

Spalatin indicated to him the points on which he would in any case be expected to make a public recantation.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter