取消前言,改變論調
Recantation \Re`can*ta"tion\, n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
recantation n : a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: {retraction}, {abjuration}]