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
He was too much of an impostor to be deeply tinged with fanaticism, and was not unwilling to make a public recantation of his heresies if he could thereby save his life.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
As for heresy, the miracle lay in the unlooked-for conversion of the chief heretic of the district, Gieremia, known as the Archbishop of the Mark, who, with his son Alticlero, made public recantation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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
