Crossword-Solution: RECANTS 7 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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RECANTS anagram CANTERS, CRETANS, NECTARS, SCANTER, TRANCES

We have 15 clues for the answer “RECANTS”

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Comes clean, perhaps 1 answer
Eats one's words 1 answer
Formally disavows 1 answer
Makes retraction. 1 answer
Takes back openly. 1 answer
Takes it back 1 answer
Withdraws statements. 1 answer
Withdraws, as testimony 1 answer
Yields to inquisitors 1 answer
Takes back one's words? 2 answers
Retracts 2 answers
Disavows 3 answers
Says it isn't so 3 answers
Forswears. 5 answers
Takes back 8 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with RECANTS (5)

And even when he has a desperate thing to say, in the moment of absolute revolt--such a thing as "I _can't_ like you, mother," which anon he will recant with convulsions of distress--he has to "speak the thing he will," and when he recants it is not for fear.
Ceres' Runaway Alice Meynell 2005
Roach, whom I saw at Oxford a few days ago, recants his opinions, and, at the age of fifty, is about to be married; he begs me to add, 'not for his own personal satisfaction.'" "Going to be married!--Decimus Roach! I thought my Reply would convince him at last." "I shall look to your Reply to remove some lingering doubts in my own mind." "Doubts in favour of celibacy?" "Well, if not for laymen, perhaps for a priesthood." "The most forcible part of my Reply is on that head: read it attentively.
Kenelm Chillingly, Book 6. Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2005
Roach, whom I saw at Oxford a few days ago, recants his opinions, and, at the age of fifty, is about to be married; he begs me to add, ‘not for his own personal satisfaction.’” “Going to be married!--Decimus Roach! I thought my Reply would convince him at last.” “I shall look to your Reply to remove some lingering doubts in my own mind.” “Doubts in favour of celibacy?” “Well, if not for laymen, perhaps for a priesthood.” “The most forcible part of my Reply is on that head: read it attentively.
Kenelm Chillingly, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2009
But only the houses of the rich are thus protected; for the priests bestow favors only "for a consideration," which the poor cannot so easily give.] It is on this day, too, that the customary Jew is converted, recants, and is baptized; and there are not wanting evil tongues which declare that there is a wonderful similarity in his physiognomy every year.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 Various 2005
During their imprisonment Eudoxia intercedes with Rachel to save Leopold's life, and at last, moved by the grief of the rightful wife, she publicly recants her statement.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) George P. Upton 2005

Quotes with RECANTS (1)

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 31 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).