Crossword-Solution: RECANT 6 letters, 81 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Recant v. t. To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions
formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take
back openly; to retract; to recall.
Recant v. i. To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what
has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will
recant.

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Word Anagrams
RECANT anagram CANTER, CARNET, CENTRA, CREANT, CRETAN, NECTAR, TRANCE

We have 81 clues for the answer “RECANT”

Clue Answers
Withdraw opinion 1 answer
Back down, in a way. 1 answer
Disavow an opinion. 1 answer
Disavow formally 1 answer
Disavow, as beliefs 1 answer
Eat one's words 1 answer
Emulate Galileo 1 answer
Formally unsay 1 answer
Formally withdraw a statement. 1 answer
Give in to the Inquisitor 1 answer
Give in under pressure, perhaps 1 answer
Go back on a statement of belief 1 answer
Inquisition order 1 answer
Insect that will take it all back 1 answer
Make a formal retraction 1 answer
Renounce (a belief) 1 answer
to publicly announce that one no longer holds an opinion or belief 1 answer
take back words 1 answer
Withdraw former statements. 1 answer
Take back, as testimony 1 answer
Take back, as one's story 1 answer
Take back, as a sworn statement 1 answer
Make an abjuration 1 answer
TAKE back publicly 1 answer
Revoke a former declaration 1 answer
Take back what was uttered 2 answers
Make a retraction 2 answers
Take it all back 2 answers
Eat crow 2 answers
Change one's tune 2 answers
Withdraw a statement 2 answers
Eat your words 2 answers
Take it back 2 answers
Have a change of heart 2 answers
Retract a statement 3 answers
Take back, as a statement 3 answers
Apostatize 3 answers
Eat humble pie 3 answers
Go back on one's word 3 answers
Say "it isn't so" 6 answers
Backtrack? 11 answers
back Take 13 answers
unsay 25 answers
resile 27 answers
palinode 29 answers
Go back (on) 29 answers
apologise 30 answers
BACK off 30 answers
Countermand 32 answers
Confess 35 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECANT (5)

But say I could repent and could obtaine By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign’d submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
About the middle of the eighteenth century Buffon made another attempt to state simple geological truths; but the theological faculty of the Sorbonne dragged him at once from his high position, forced him to recant ignominiously, and to print his recantation.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves? Epicurus is charged, that he did but dissemble for his credit's sake, when he affirmed there were blessed natures, but such as enjoyed themselves, without having respect to the government of the world.
Essays Francis Bacon 1996
You fill me with surprise.’ Somerset, alarmed by the old lady’s change of tone and manner, hurried to recant.
The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 2011
Then shall the wretched few, that do repine, See and recant their blasphemies in wine; Then shall they grieve, that thought I've sung too free, High and aloud of thy true worth and thee, And their fowl heresies and lips submit To th' all-forgiving breath of Amoret; And me alone their angers object call, That from my height so miserably did fall; And crie out my invention thin and poor, Who have said nought, since I could say no more.
Lucasta Richard Lovelace 1996

Quotes with RECANT (3)

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, s…
Martin Luther Luther's Works, 33: Career of the Reformer III
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse — and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of — a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!
Daniel C. Dennett Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of poverty, fear of insolvency. Fear of groveling when we try to make it on our own, and of groveling when we give up and come crawling back to where we started. Fear of being selfish, of being rotten wives or disloyal husbands; fear of failing to support our families, of sacrificing their dreams for ours. Fear of betraying our race, our 'hood, …
Steven Pressfield The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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Used 69 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).