(n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a
former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
卡特编辑
双语例句
The story has it that as he rose from his knees, after repeating his recantation, he muttered, _Eppur si muove_--it moves nevertheless. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.