retractation

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It would be attaching very great importance to one's smallest sayings, to think a formal retractation requisite every time that one falls into an error.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

Let me say quite plainly, however, that the second one is no retractation of the first.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

The announcement of the retractation required from Luther by the bull was to have been sent to Rome within one hundred twenty days.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

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 Johnson, Rossiter

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.