1534 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. i. 211 The publict ceremonie of recanting..was to beare a faggot of drie sticks and burne it publictlie.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Palinodia.., nowe of some men called a recantynge.

a1559 T. Brice Reg. in Metre (1570) l. 33 Abbes, which fained a recanting Did wofully wepe, and deplore.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. III. ii. 33 Repentance is no other but a recanting of the Will, and an Opposition to our Fancies.

1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Abjuration, a solemn disowning, renouncing, or recanting of an opinion, doctrine, or person, by oath.

1832 Times 3/1 3/2 Enabling him to profit by the defeat and resignation of the Ministers..could be no otherwise effected than through a recanting..of his first antipathy to ‘all and every’ reform.

1908 W. Hinchman & F. Gummere Lives Great Eng. Writers 14 Sir Lewis Clifford..was a patron and protector of the Lollards... Very interesting is his repentance and the recanting of the Wyclif heresy.

1951 J. Griffen tr. H. de Montherlant Malatesta in Master of Santiago 119 It is rumored that even now, in spite of all your recantings and promises, you laugh a great deal at those who find their strength in Christ.

2007 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 7 July What followed was a recanting by the eight of the charges of ill-treatment.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 550/2 Neither doth it seeme that he had any such recanting spirite.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 193 My teeth shall teare The slauish motiue of recanting feare. View more context for this quotation

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 32 Have..not..thir now recanting Ministers preach'd against him.

1701 Fable Cuckoo 35 Let..Parish Stipendaries prove recanting.

1781 J. Wesley tr. J. L. Mosheim Conc. Eccl. Hist. I. iii. iii. 135 Many of the Oriental and African Christians placed recanting heretics in the rank of catechumens.

1842 Times 8 June 6/2 We do not suspect the..Heads of Houses of any design to award a triumph to the favourers of the Tracts for the Times; yet no course could have been taken by them so sure to produce that effect as this recanting proposition.

1929 R. Curtis tr. L. Madelin Figures of Revol. ii. 59 Already he was arranging meetings between some recanting republican and some of the King's friends in which they were to discuss the famous restoration scheme.

2000 Denver Post (Nexis) 12 Nov. m1 Prosecutors, faced with a recanting victim who had reconciled with her abuser before trial, were more likely to dismiss the case.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 58 Iulian..recantingly cryed out, Vicisti, Galilæe, vicisti.

1759 Def. Let. Dutchess of M—h 30 Upon what then could eloquence have ever been better employed than in..recantingly defending an adherence to them [sc. Hanover and all its train of relations]?

1836 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 2 546 The basket (ber), constituting the first syllable of the name Berenice, which Champollion reads B, and with which Young recantingly afterwards concurred.