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What does recanted mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of recant
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Sigismund hounded on the prelates to make an end of Hus, even if he recanted.
He initially backed them up but later recanted, telling prosecutors there was no agreement.
He may have recanted on the hard-line economics, but people here still regard him as one of the leaders of the English party.
I have since recanted my statement, in accord with the truth, and have apologized for my misinformation.
Seven of the nine witnesses who testified at the trial recanted their accounts before the state of Georgia killed him by lethal injection.
But not one of Jesus's early disciples who believed that they had met Jesus after the resurrection ever recanted.

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