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verb

To formally withdraw or disavow one's belief, position, or statement about something previously believed or maintained.

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 Speech, April 18, 1521

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