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
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 Bente, F. (Friedrich)
In July 1593 he read a public recantation in the Church of St. Denis, and was absolved conditionally from the censures he had incurred.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James
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
