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Doctor Factobend's Recantation in the Bird Basket, St Kilda, a plate from The Tour of Doctor Prosody (William Combe, 1821)

Recantation is a public denial of a previously published opinion or belief. The word is derived from the Latin re cantare ("sing again"). It is related to repentance and revocation.