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
This led to his imprisonment from which he was released only after a public recantation, 1526.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
Lord Salisbury, Lord Hartington, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Chamberlain cannot agree upon any scheme which all can accept without a public recantation of previous professions.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
Not so: this conscientious man, however innocently, had misled the public, upon a few historical points, and nothing would give him satisfaction, but a public recantation.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
