Recantation
Pronunciation : Re`can*ta"tion
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913