Recantation Definition

Recantation Sentence Examples

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

• On the 21st of March he was taken to St Mary's church, and asked to repeat his recantation in the hearing of the people as he had promised.

• He accompanied Servetus to the stake, vainly urging him to a recantation at the last moment.

• Eckhart appears, however, to have made a conditional recantation - that is, he professed to disavow whatever in his writings could be shown to be erroneous.

• The recantation was probably insincere, for on returning to his diocese he taught adoptianism as before.