retractation
Example Sentences
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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 Augustus F. Lindley
Wrong, very wrong!" he rejoined; "that arrogant fellow will try to make it be believed that his retractation was given as an equivalent for the suspension of the performance.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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 Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
After I have made a public retractation all my comrades who have hitherto been my friends will fall away from me and despise me.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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 John Stuart Mill
