recantations's Usage Examples:

The calm cheerfulness and resolution with which he met his fate show that he felt that he had cleared his conscience, and that his recantation of his recantations was a repentance that needed not to be repented of.

the intermittent burning of heretics, and their far ffiore frequent recantations, had borne witness to the IThey continued to be burnt, or more frequently to make forced recantations, under the Yorkist rule, though the list of trials is not a long one.

His early recantations" are merely recognitions of his lifelong conviction of this right of the state.

Cheke was visited by two priests and by Dr John Feckenham, dean of St Paul's, whom he had formerly tried to convert to Protestantism, and, terrified by a threat of the stake, he gave way and was received into the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pole, being cruelly forced to make two public recantations.

The pioneers of the science in the 16th and 17th centuries put forth anticipations of some of the well-known modern principles, often followed by recantations, through deference to prevailing religious or traditional beliefs.

About the same time Cranmer subscribed the first two of his " recantations.