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 ...