| 单词 | recanted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreˈcanted reˈcanted adj. (of a statement, doctrine, etc.) that has been retracted, renounced, or disavowed; (also of a person) that has recanted. ΚΠ 1558 Speciall Grace after Banket at Yorke sig. bvii This their wicked, inconstant & recanted doctrine. 1563 in C. Innes Reg. S. Marie de Neubotle (1849) 334 To..sex agit decraipit and recantit monkis, xijxx li. 1671 J. Glanvill Further Discov. Stubbe 8 Some, you phancy, may think, that you writ against the Errors of that recanted Book. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 373 Of the same 12th Century were Folmar, Abaillard, Arnaldus Brixiensis..all whose unaccentuated and recanted Arianism perish'd together. 1849 H. W. Herbert Dermot O'Brien ii. 22 The arch-mutineer, recanted Papist rebel, and relapsed malignant, Hugh O'Neil. 1952 H. Hoover Memoirs v. 24 This fraud on the American people was also subsequently exposed in the memoirs of a recanted Communist. 2007 San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Tribune (Nexis) 5 July Carter was imprisoned for almost 20 years..before a recanted testimony freed him. < as lemmas |
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