retractation
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He watched old Morestal, as though he were still expecting a sudden retractation.
From The Frontier by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Nor would the government fulfil its engagement to force the constitutional bishops to a retractation.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
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 Count Carlo Gozzi
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
Nothing was done; deceived on this wise, she could not fail to retract her retractation.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
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