recanting
Unsaying prior claims
Recanting is taking back something you previously said or believed, especially a public statement or formal position.
Unlike simply changing your mind, recanting often carries weight—confessions are recanted, testimony is recanted, beliefs once held firmly are recanted under pressure or upon reflection: The witness recanted her earlier identification of the suspect.
Formal withdrawal of statement
- disavowalRejection of connection
- abjurationSworn repudiation of allegiance
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- repudiationFormal refusal to accept
revocation · reconsideration · about-face · backtracking · backpedaling · reversal · withdrawal · rescinding
Act of leaving permanently
- relinquishmentFormal giving up
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- disowningFormally rejecting association
- forsakingRenouncing or abandoning completely
rejection · apostasy · heresy · defection · abnegation · capitulation · yielding · desertion
retraction
Formal withdrawal of statement
- disavowalRejection of connection
- abjurationSworn repudiation of allegiance
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
repudiation · revocation · reconsideration · about-face · backtracking · backpedaling · reversal · withdrawal · rescinding · annulment
abandonment
Act of leaving permanently
- relinquishmentFormal giving up
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- disowningFormally rejecting association
forsaking · rejection · apostasy · heresy · defection · abnegation · capitulation · yielding · desertion · turning back
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- repudiatingrenouncing, disclaiming, rejecting, disavowing, disowning
- betrayalbackstab, betray, betrayal, traitor, backstabber
- conversionsconvert, exchange rate, encoding, transcoding, reformatting
- correctionscorrection, corrections, fix, fixing, rectification
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
recantingdoubling down
Strengthening a risky commitment
reaffirming · maintaining · persisting · upholding · insisting
recantingaffirming
Declaring something true
asserting · avowing · proclaiming · professing · confirming
chant, enchant, recant, incantation, cantata, cantor, canticle, recantation, descant