public recantation
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In spite of his advisers he determines to make a public recantation over the television-radio which would wreck the republic and his reputation.
From Time Magazine Archive
For weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Salisbury, Lord Hartington, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Chamberlain cannot agree upon any scheme which all can accept without a public recantation of previous professions.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
This led to his imprisonment from which he was released only after a public recantation, 1526.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Then, in a magisterial tone, he called on Clerambault to sit down and write on the spot a public recantation.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland
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