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Definition of recant in English Turkish dictionary
- sözünü geri al
- -den dönmek
- -i bırakmak
- caymak
- {f} dönmek
- {f} fikrini değiştirmek
- {f} vazgeçmek
- {f} sözünü geri almak
- bırakmak
- recantation
- cayma
- recantation
- sözünden dönme
- recantation
- vazgeçme
- recantation
- {i} sözünü geri alma
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Definition of recant in English English dictionary
- To withdraw from or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly
Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.
- to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained)
- To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall
- {v} to retract an opinion, to recall
- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant
- If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past. White House officials ordered Williams to recant. a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy. to say publicly that you no longer have a political or religious belief that you had before (recantare, from cantare )
- {f} give up, renounce; deny, disavow, retract
- recantation
- the act of recanting or something recanted
- recantation
- {n} the act of retracting an opinion
- recanter
- {n} one who recants or retracts
- recantation
- {i} act of giving up, renouncement; denial, disavowal, retraction
- recantation
- a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
- recantation
- The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction
- recanted
- Past tense and past participle of to recant
- recanter
- One who recants
- recanter
- {i} one who gives up, one who renounces; one who denies, retractor, one who disavows
- recanting
- present participle of recant
- recants
- third-person singular of recant
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recant
Hyphenation
re·cantTurkish pronunciation
rikäntSynonyms
disavow, retract, take back, unsay, abjure, abnegate, abrogate, annul, apostatize, back down, back off, back out, backtrack, call back, cancelPronunciation
/rēˈkant/ /riːˈkænt/
Etymology
[ ri-'kant ] (verb.) 1535. First attested in 1535, from Latin recantare (“to sing back, reecho, sing again, repeat in singing, recant, recall, revoke, charm back or away”), from re- (“back”) + cantare (“to chant/sing”), frequentative of canere.Resimler
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