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recantation

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Still, the recantation required Baur to notify a judge and let the courts decide it credible or not.

Nevertheless, his recantation was a fall, and in the eyes of the scientific world perhaps greater than that of Bacon.

But after his recantation his detention was made less severe and he was allowed many alleviations.

A recantation would only add to the dishonour of the Church of Rome, and raise an universal cry of accusation against her.

The old man's voice trembled and he looked wistfully in Azora's face in hopes of seeing some sign of her recantation.

The recantation so given has to be confirmed a day or two later, under pain of a precisely similar ordeal.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to recantation, such as: abjuration, abnegation, about-face, abrogation, annulment, and contradiction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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