He was restored to his pleasant quarters in Newgate, and recanted his recantation.
For the rest, Jeanne recanted her so-called recantation, averring that she was unaware of the contents or full significance of the document, which certainly is not the very brief writing to which she set her mark.
But when the torture was removed from them and her, she recanted in one of the most moving and pathetic speeches on record--availing her little then, poor soul!
But he never lost faith in his own ideal, or recanted his prophecy that the northern Continent would yet be possessed and peopled by men of his own race, that he would live to see Virginia an English nation.
This sufficed to bring him before the Inquisition at Cologne, where he recanted conditionally on an appeal to the Pope.
Eucharist, and thenceforth he entered into a stormy controversy on the subject, in the course of which he twice recanted under bodily fear, but passionately returned to his original positions.
As was frequently the case with him, he recanted again.
He was wont at a later date to disparage this production, and frequently recanted many of his verdicts in marginal notes.
But I do not read that he recanted the charge of drunkenness.
Oporinus, who slandered him so cruelly, recanted when Paracelsus was dead, and sang his praises--too late.
Even Juana Sánchez, who had managed to bring with her a pair of scissors and had cut her throat, recanted before death, but her confession was considered imperfect and she was burnt in effigy.
Eight more propositions he recanted as false and erroneous, and seven he explained in a Catholic sense--all of these being more or less Lutheran.
At first, in the medieval tribunals, it was only the pertinacious and impenitent heretic who was consigned to the stake; he who recanted and professed conversion, even at the last moment, was admitted to reconciliation.
Diego López Duro, an humble retailer of tobacco, condemned for Judaism, recanted while on the staging and was reconciled with imprisonment.
All the three "godless painters" were banished from reformed Nuremberg; but Georg, whose confession had been most godless, recanted and was allowed to return.
I told him that I had often heard it asserted from the pulpit that Mr. Paine had recanted in his last moments.
If Paine recanted why should he be denied "a little earth for charity"?
During the persecutions against the Bábís he recantedhis faith.
The cords which bound him having rapidly been consumed, he leaped unconsciously on to the stage where the friars were confessing some who had recanted at the last moment.
She recantedand abjured, and would have had as penance four years' prison on bread and water, but she did not suffer this a single day, for she had herself served in prison like a lady.
There is also an allusion to a priest who persisted in maintaining the errors which it condemned and who was handed over to the secular arm, but who recanted ere the fagots were lighted and was received to penance.
They were obstinate, and were handed over to the secular arm, when all were burned except Bonato, who recanted on being scorched by the flames.
His father, disliking the management of public schools under the Commonwealth, sent the youth to France, where he became a Roman Catholic, butrecanted upon his return.
In several bills and declarations, Madam, He hath recanted all his heresies.
You know that you recanted all you said Touching the sacrament in that same book You wrote against my Lord of Winchester; Dissemble not; play the plain Christian man.
He had in Henry's time recanted some Lollard tracts which he had written, and now under Mary he recanted once more.
Then he re-recanted and said that a large part of his first recantation, signed by him and initialed by him on each page with his initials was false.
Still, the archbishop pronounced them excommunicated heretics, to be suppressed by the secular arm unless they recanted within fifteen days.
In Marburg itself many suspects were seized, including knights, priests, and persons of condition, of whom some recanted and the rest were burned.
Twenty of them recanted and were penanced with crosses and banishment or imprisonment, but five were stubborn and sealed their faith with martyrdom in the flames.
He publicly recanted and abjured, his books were burned before his face, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Augustinian monastery of Mainz.
Berthold had previously been caught in Wuerzburg, and had recanted through dread of the stake.
It was said he recanted and wrote a poem beginning, "Great God, how just are thy chastisements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abandoned; forgone; forsworn; released; relinquished; renounced; waived
