retractation

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After I have made a public retractation all my comrades who have hitherto been my friends will fall away from me and despise me.

From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph

Visitors arrived, and Gratarol's letter of retractation circulated through the city in a score of copies.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

Good faith, as a principle of action, being a most important desideratum, no retractation must be made in respect of the number of days conceded prior to our advance on the city.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.

He was told that an explanation, not a retractation, was all that was demanded of him, and when the explanation he offered was found unsatisfactory another was proposed to him on May 31.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

Had he drawn his sword upon me, I could have understood that his retractation had been forced.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo