Definition of "recanter" []

• One who recants. (noun)

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• "Smokey, seems nearly each person that has left the administration is a self-serving recanter except Rove, Miers, and the ones under indictment +/-."
• "If this were really about accountability, why does the recanter get more criticism than the unapologetic McCarthyites who persist unabated?"
• "His enemies, and at that time there were many of them, would have been glad to have proved him a renegade and a recanter."