Sentences with 'recant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word recant and other words derived from it.
• « In 1521 Luther was tried at the Diet of Worms, the official meeting of princes of the Holy Roman Empire, where Emperor Charles V ordered him to recant. Luther refused and was declared an "outlaw" by the emperor, stipulating that no subject of the Empire should offer Luther food or water, and suffering no legal penalty in the event that Luther was killed. »
• « Galileo was forced to recant and his book was placed on the Catholic Index of banned books, where it remained until 1822. »