Recant vs Abdicate - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
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(obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
(obsolete) To depose.
(obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
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To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
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As verbs the difference between recant and abdicate
is that recant is to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly while abdicate is to disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.recant
English
Verb
(en verb)- Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant .
- How soon ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
Synonyms
* abjure * disavow * disown * recall * retract * revoke * take back * unsay * withcallSee also
* contradict * recall * revokeExternal links
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*abdicate
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Verb
(abdicat)- (Bishop Hall)
- Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
- The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
- He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
- The understanding abdicates its functions.
- Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.
