Recant vs Forego - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
* Milton
To precede, to go before.
* Wordsworth
; to abandon, to relinquish
* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
As verbs the difference between recant and forego
is that recant is to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly while forego is to precede, to go before.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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*forego
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Usage notes
* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").Etymology 2
See forgoVerb
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.