recantation

CIDE DICTIONARY

recantation, n. 

 The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.  [1913 Webster]
"The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

recantation

abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, cession, chucking, chucking out, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, declension, declination, declinature, declining, defeasance, denial, deprivation, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, dismissal, disobedience, disowning, disownment, dispensation, disposal, disposition, disproof, disregard, dissent, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, holding back, ignoring, impugnment, invalidation, letting go, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recall, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relinquishment, renege, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, repulse, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, resignation, retention, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddance, sacrifice, scouting, setting aside, spurning, surrender, suspension, swearing off, throwing out, thumbs-down, turndown, turning out, unsaying, unwillingness, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, withholding, write-off, yielding

ROGET THESAURUS

recantation

Tergiversation

N tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

Abrogation

N abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision, vacatur, canceling, cancel, revocation, revokement, repeal, rescission, defeasance, dismissal, conge, demission, bounce, deposal, deposition, dethronement, disestablishment, disendowment, deconsecration, sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket, yellow cover, abolition, abolishment, dissolution, counter order, countermand, repudiation, retraction, retractation, recantation, abolitionist, abrogated, functus officio, Int, get along with you!, begone!, go about your business!, away with!.

Penitence

N penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret, self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation, stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience, compunctious visitings of nature, acknowledgment, confession, apology, recantation, penance, resipiscence, awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool, penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man, penitent, repenting, repentant, contrite, conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken, self-accusing, self-convicted, penitential, penitentiary, reclaimed, reborn, not hardened, unhardened, mea culpa, peccavi, erubuit, salva res est, Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin, and wet his grave with my repentant tears.

Dissent

N dissent, discordance, difference diversity of opinion, nonconformity, protestantism, recusancy, schism, disaffection, secession, recantation, dissension, discontent, cavilling, protest, contradiction, noncompliance, dissentient, dissenter, non-juror, non-content, nonconformist, sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic, refusal, dissenting, negative, dissident, dissentient, unconsenting, non-content, nonjuring, protestant, recusant, unconvinced, unconverted, unavowed, unacknowledged, out of the question, discontented, unwilling, extorted, sectarian, denominational, schismatic, heterodox, intolerant, no, at variance, at issue with, under protest, Int, God forbid!, not for the world, I'll be hanged if, never tell me, your humble servant, pardon me, many men many minds, quot homines tot sententiae, tant s'en faut, il s'en faut bien, no way, by no means, count me out.