Verb
To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game. Tina Fey
Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther
I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant. Ann Voskamp
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion Source: Internet