Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who recants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who recants.
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- noun One who
recants .
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Examples
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Smokey, seems nearly each person that has left the administration is a self-serving recanter except Rove, Miers, and the ones under indictment +/-.
The Volokh Conspiracy » David Addington on the FISA Court: 2007
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If this were really about accountability, why does the recanter get more criticism than the unapologetic McCarthyites who persist unabated?
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His enemies, and at that time there were many of them, would have been glad to have proved him a renegade and a recanter.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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_Confession de Sancy_, attacked with characteristic ardour the apostates and waverers of the time, above the rest that threefold recanter of his faith, Harlay de Sancy.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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His enemies, and at that time there were many of them, would have been glad to have proved him a renegade and a recanter.
What is Property? 1837
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a coward recanter, a perverted apostate, and denounced the entire range of
The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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