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recantation

recantation noun: the act of recanting or something recanted.

Noun

recantation (countable and uncountable, plural recantations)

  1. 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.2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

recantation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

recantation in Hindi

recantation
तौबा taubā

recantation in Tamil

மறுதலித்தல்

recantation in Urdu

recantation
ارتداد irtidād, توبہ tauba, نسخ nasx

recantation in Bengali

recantation
তওবা toōba
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recantation in Malayalam
മറുത്തുപറയൽ, ഖണ്ഡനം, പിൻവലിക്കൽ, പരിത്യാഗം

Forms of recantation

pluralrecantations

Origin of recantation

From recant + -ation.

Questions about recantation

What does recantation mean?
Recantation means the act of recanting or something recanted.
What is recantation in Hindi?
Recantation in Hindi is तौबा (taubā). See Recantation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is recantation?
Recantation is a noun.
What is the plural of recantation?
The plural of recantation is recantations.

Words near recantation in the dictionary

  1. recanonizes
  2. recanonizing
  3. recans
  4. recant
  5. recantable
  6. recantation
  7. recantations
  8. recanted
  9. recanter
  10. recanters
  11. recantest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recantation (page history and authors); तौबा (Hindi) (page history and authors); recantation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ارتداد (Urdu) (page history and authors); তওবা (Bengali) (page history and authors); recantation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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