public recantation
Example Sentences
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For weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Spalatin indicated to him the points on which he would in any case be expected to make a public recantation.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
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 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
As for heresy, the miracle lay in the unlooked-for conversion of the chief heretic of the district, Gieremia, known as the Archbishop of the Mark, who, with his son Alticlero, made public recantation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
