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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 Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

D'Aubign�, in his Confession de Sancy, attacked with characteristic ardour the apostates and waverers of the time, above the rest that threefold recanter of his faith, Harlay de Sancy.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund