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Recantation is the public act of taking back a belief you used to hold — almost always a political or religious one — and saying, in front of other people, that you no longer believe it. It is not a quiet change of mind, and it is not “I don’t like that any more.” People use this word when the old belief was serious, and when saying you have left it matters to a court, a church, a party, or a crowd. The verb is recant: you recant, and the recantation is the saying itself, or the statement you make. Though actually, a lot of famous recantations happened under pressure: someone was told to take the belief back or be punished. Today you still meet the word in news about and religion, and it sounds formal and heavy. You would not call it a recantation if you simply stopped supporting a team.
公開撤回先前的政治或宗教主張（收回前言）
組成recant + -ation. Recant is the verb “take back that belief in public”; -ation turns the action into a noun.
同家族的字
- recantthe verb: to say in public that you no longer hold a belief you had before
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
recantationnoun
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The act of recanting or something recanted.
- Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。