RECANT', verb transitive [Latin recanto; re and canto. See Cant.] To retract; to recall; to contradict a former declaration. How soon would ease recant vows made in pain, as violent as void. RECANT', verb intransitive To recall words; to revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said. Convince me I am wrong, and I will recant
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