How To Use Recantation In A Sentence
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We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
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It was striking, although its tone was less contrite than last week's recantation.
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To the Crown, however, a recantation is a red flag signalling that a woman has been pressured to drop her allegations.
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But if the critics were anticipating a recantation of his views on politics and art they were sorely disappointed.
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Successive governments denied that the region had been a theatre of war: pressure from veterans has forced recantation.
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We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
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One of them is the book ‘Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Iran’ by Ervand Abrahamian, 1999.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Leading reformist Abtahi on trial
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But he says that to walk in that procession, to take part in that act of so-called recantation and reconciliation, would be in itself as a confession that those things which he had held and taught were heretical.
For the Faith
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But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible.
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This did not appease: but on the return of the bill to the House of Lords, where our amendments were to be read, the Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that “he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation.”
Letters of Horace Walpole 01
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Their petition highlighted the seriously disturbing timing and the circumstances of the so-called recantation, describing that Nicole's counsel, Atty.
Davao Today
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_A Recantation of an Ill-led Life_, or a discovery of the highway law, as also many _cautelous_ admonitions, and ful instructions how to know, shun, and apprehende a _thiefe_, most necessary for all honest travellers to peruse, observe, and practice; written by _John Clavel_, gent.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
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And the purgation was a recantation, which began thus, --
Phaedrus
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True, there are recantations from most of the witnesses against him, but the law "disfavors" consideration of recantations, he opines, and besides the pressures put on these witnesses either from internal bias or pressure from the police, don't matter.
Andrea Lyon: Close Enough Isn't Good Enough
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Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer, of St. Andrews, Norwich, had recanted; but, tortured for what she had done by the worm which dieth not, she shortly after voluntarily entered her parish church during the time of the popish service, and standing up, audibly proclaimed that she revoked her former recantation, and cautioned the people to avoid her unworthy example.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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With its converse insight into the modality of romantic apostasy, this volatile epigram is nothing less than the fulcrum with which we can gain sufficient purchase to negotiate the critical conversions of Coleridgean recantation, from the odes of the 1790s through the desultory journalism of the 1800s and 1810s to the "Logosophia" of 1817 and after.
The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy
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The girl then recanted – only to admit later that her recantation was a lie told in order to stay with her mother, the state argues.
Waldo Jaquith - Carpitcher case goes before Virginia Supreme Court.
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The term Nazarite signifies _separated_; and is commonly applied to persons who make a vow to live in a more holy manner than others, either during a certain specified number of years, or ever after the pledge is given, without recantation or change.
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
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There is no reason to suppose that the idea of sparing him was ever entertained; but, wherever the blame lay, he was led to believe that a recantation might save him; and he did now at last break down utterly, and recant in the most abject terms.
England under the Tudors
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He made a public recantation of all his former beliefs.
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Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
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He often recanted, and the recantation was a thousand times worse than the thing recanted.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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At Trebizond, a young man, refusing to sign the recantation, was beaten on the soles of his feet, the vartabed aiding with his own hands in inflicting the blows.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
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Would that, for the sake of herself and her beautiful daughter ... would that for the sake of public morality, Mrs. Robinson were persuaded to dismiss the gloomy phantom of annihilation; to think seriously of a future rebribution; and to communicate to the world a recantation of errors that originated in levity, and have been nursed by pleasure.
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
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Very often, when you look at what the defense attorney now labels a recantation, you see that in fact the witness has not really recanted anything at all, but instead has merely asserted somehow or other that they think the individual is innocent usually in the abstract, without addressing specific factual questions or prior statements by that witness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New Way to Resolve Actual Innocence Claims in Capital Cases?:
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The previous day, he had made a sniveling recantation on the floor of the Senate.
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The alleged recantation/conversion are embellishments that others have either read into the story or made up for themselves.
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We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
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Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
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Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that "he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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The cardinal plainly told him so; and as it is, he has signed a paper which they call a recantation of heresy.
For the Faith
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I doubted also whether to make a distinction of ages, or to treat young and old alike; whether to allow space for recantation, or to refuse all pardon whatever to one who had been a Christian; whether, finally, to make the name penal, though no crime should be proved, or to reserve the penalty for the combination of both.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Successive governments denied that the region had been a theatre of war: pressure from veterans has forced recantation.
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Finally, when she is faced with being burned alive, she recants, but then retracts her recantation and is publicly executed.
