retractation

I have acknowledged the authorship, and declared that to-morrow I will give my answer concerning retractation.

It is a volume of retractation, more ample and more convincing than his energetic pen could have produced.

In spite of a useless retractation of his "errors," he was never released, and died in prison in 1758.

Charterhouse monks:their retractation of their Supremacy oath, 327;executed for treason, 328.

On May 21st his emissary was offering peace on the terms of the retractation of the Edict of Restitution.