retractation

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Hoping to save his life, he renounced his office under the Convention, after having offered his retractation to the Pope for £12,000.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville

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

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

Some of the articles, he replied, charged him with teaching things which he had never taught, and he could not by this formal act of retractation admit that he had taught them.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

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