Crossword-Solution: RECANTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECANTS | anagram | CANTERS, CRETANS, NECTARS, SCANTER, TRANCES |
We have 15 clues for the answer “RECANTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).