Recanting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who recants; a retraction.

    "Its victim focus and child centeredness, in the program's opinion, accounted for the significant numbers of client disclosures and four offender confessions and very few victim recantings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of recant form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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contradictorycontrarynegativeopposingrenunciativerepudiative

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"Its victim focus and child centeredness, in the program's opinion, accounted for the significant numbers of client disclosures and four offender confessions and very few victim recantings."

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