recantation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
    retraction; abjuration.

WordNet


Re`can*ta"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
    The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Webster 1913