recantation

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English cant

English recant

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English recantation

From recant + -ation.

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recantation (countable and uncountable, plural recantations)

The act of recanting or something recanted.
- 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.