Word: recantation
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...overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim and fiery girl but a plump and matronly woman. Freed in 1957, she said, "I had no reason to reform, repent or recant, so I just reduced...
...monastery in England particularly led outbreaks against the Jews. It was the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, the holy tomb of the royal martyr killed in 870 by pagan Danes when he refused to recant Christianity. Stylistic links between the cross and the richly illuminated Bury Bible, created during the 1130s, led Curator Hoving to the abbey...
...area of church teaching, development is far from impossible, said Dopfner, since "a dogma as such is not finally synonymous with divine truth but only incompletely expresses the wealth of divine truth because it sees revelation in human terms." This does not mean that the church can recant or change dogmatic definitions of the past, but it can discover new aspects of truth and find new ways to express traditional teaching...
Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...
...because Miss Winters learned from Harvard, her lecture was also a great deal more. She was strongly affected by her stay here, and the crowd in the Kirkland Junior Common Room heard a great actress publicly recant some of the basic values of her life and her profession. In dramatic fashion, her lecture illustrated how fruitful an exchange between academic and professional cultures...