Recant 1100 Words You Need Week 15 Day 1

Recant 1100 Words You Need

Recant 1100 Words You Need

/rɪˈkænt/ (verb)

to announce publicly that you no longer hold a religious or political belief that you used to have, reject belief, deny believing in something, renounce, take back, disavow, repudiate, withdraw, retract, revoke, abjure:

In 1633, the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei, one of the founders of modern science, to recant his theory that the Earth moves around the Sun. Under threat of torture, Galileo – seen facing his inquisitors – recanted. But as he left the courtroom, he is said to have muttered, ‘all the same, it moves’.

Source: https://www.newscientist.com/

Edward Crome (died 1562) was an English reformer and courtier. Crome was arrested in April 1546 for heresy. He recanted, but when made to do this again, publicly, he attacked the Mass and transubstantiation.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/

Today marks the 378th anniversary of the day the Inquisition forced Galileo to say he was wrong— that the Earth did not revolve around the sun. Galileo had made the proclamation in his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, and whether he really believed what he was saying that summer day is debatable. Legend has it that after he recanted his views, Galileo muttered, “And yet it moves,” under his breath, but David DeVorkin, senior curator at the National Air and Space Museum, says there’s no historical basis for that claim.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/

Antonym: avow

Noun: recantation, recanter

Farsi: حرف خود را پس گرفتن

French: rétracter

Urdu: منکر