recant
verb (used with object)
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
recanter
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a word derived from
recant.
Example Sentences
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His enemies, and at that time there were many of them, would have been glad to have proved him a renegade and a recanter.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
