recant
verb (used with object)
to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
will recant
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future tenseof recant.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe nor salutary.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he will recant and confess his error, he can be released when ever he wants.
From Time Magazine Archive
They kept turning this down, and when this was done, most men would say: "I will recant."
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll
But that I will recant, most blessed Father, let no one imagine, unless he prefer to involve the whole question in greater turmoil.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
The young Emperor Charles Fifth, with all the Princes of Germany, Papal nuncios, dignitaries spiritual and temporal, are assembled there: Luther is to appear and answer for himself, whether he will recant or not.
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
