public recantation

Example Sentences

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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

Less than a week later, Lord Baringstoke’s public recantation was the talk of London.

From Marge Askinforit by Pain, Barry

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