单词 | unrecanted |
释义 | unrecantedadj. That has been recanted. Also: (of a person) that has not recanted. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [adjective] > of nature of recantation > not recanted unrecanted1573 1573 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews (1889) I. 376 Schir Dauid Mwir..ane papist unrecantit and obstinet. 1649 R. Baxter Let. in Of Justif. (1658) ii. 162 I may dye in error unrecanted, and you (being now importuned for your help) be guilty of it. 1694 W. Atwood Antiq. & Justice Oath of Abjuration 67 His unrecanted Doctrine of the Absolute Irresistibility of his Person remains in full Force. 1778 Scots Mag 40 App. 700/2 Measures carried on in unrecanted error. 1826 Q. Rev. 33 356 After living in the unrecanted profession of The Confession of Faith. 1872 Spectator 7 Sept. 1127/2 A greater outrage on God than a life of unrecanted heresy. 1919 19th Cent. & After Sept. 605 Military service—a subject on which to-day hypocrisy and unrecanted folly are being poured out. 2004 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 3 July 40 The student radical, unrecanted Maoist ideologue and latter-day pragmatist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1573 |
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