Recount vs Recant - What's the difference?
recount | recant |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between recount and recant
is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of while recant is to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.As a noun recount
is retelling, narration, rendering.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*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!