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
Not so: this conscientious man, however innocently, had misled the public, upon a few historical points, and nothing would give him satisfaction, but a public recantation.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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
Under Edward VI. he was accused of denying the king’s supremacy over the church, and had to make a public recantation in 1554; but with the accession of Mary his prospects brightened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
