recant
Meaning of recant
- say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical.
heretics were burned if they would not recant
Galileo was forced to recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun
mid 16th century: from Latin recantare ‘revoke’, from re- (expressing reversal) + cantare ‘sing, chant’.
Information about recant
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of recant is: recants.
- Languages in which recant is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of recant
re-cant
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- recant is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
recant synonyms
Meaning abjure:
abjure, forswear, retract, resile
Meaning formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession):
Meaning deny any responsibility or support for:
Meaning state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of:
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning cease to support or look after (someone); desert:
Meaning abandon or leave:
Meaning a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack:
Meaning go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract:
Meaning renounce a religious or political belief or principle:
Meaning make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate:
Meaning say that (a statement one has made) is untrue or unjustified:
Meaning refuse to acknowledge; deny:
Meaning refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with:
Meaning bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind; remember:
Meaning withdraw or retract (a statement):
recant antonyms
Meaning state again strongly:
Anagrams of recant
Canter, canter, carnet, centra, cranet, creant, Cretan, cretan, nectar, tanrec, trance
Words that rhyme with recant
Cant, cant, nonvacant, unvacant, vacant, Peccant, antidesiccant, desiccant, exsiccant, impeccant, peccant, siccant, cosecant, decant, defecant, dodecant, duosecant, exsecant, imprecant, intersecant, precant, secant, Alicant, Mendicant, abdicant, albicant, alicant, applicant, autointoxicant, catalecticant, clarificant, claudicant, coimplicant, coindicant, communicant, complicant, consignificant, contraindicant, dedicant, denitrificant, detoxicant, dijudicant, edificant, emicant, eradicant, excommunicant, fabricant, febricant, flavicant, formicant