retractation
Example Sentences
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He could not have anticipated Cobham's retractation of his retractation.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
In reality, it was not to the interest of the English that she should resume her man's dress, and so make null and void a retractation obtained with such difficulty.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
He was pressed to make a formal retractation of the passages to which objection was made, but this he stiffly refused to do.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
Explicit reparation is made by retractation of one's words, by condemnation of one's acts, by the destruction of one's scandalous writings, by efforts to bring back to virtue those whom one has misled, etc.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
John's voice held a certain regret, but no retractation.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
