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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recantation \Re`can*ta"tion\, n.
The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former
one that which is thus asserted in contradiction;
retraction.
The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and
forced to make a public recantation. --Bp.
Stillingfleet
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
recantation
n : a disavowal of a previous assertion [syn: {retraction}, {abjuration}]
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