A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.
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Examples for "retraction "
1 The legal source who is familiar with the case confirmed the retraction .
2 Certainly James of Molay's retraction marked a turning point in the trial.
3 Significant retraction of maxillary and mandibular incisors was also observed with treatment.
4 Alistair would no doubt obtain a retraction of the more egregious charges.
5 It said that Mwangaguhunga refused to publish a retraction and an apology.
1 The ancient abjuration was retained among protestants; but its spirit had expired.
2 The republic existed, in fact, from the moment of the abjuration in 1581.
3 The young preacher was summoned to take the oath of allegiance and abjuration .
4 The oath of abjuration comes close on the oath of allegiance.
5 Tecla Georgis renounced his abjuration , and at his death persisted in his errors.
1 Not even the recantation of the offender could annul these appalling sentences.
2 But for us that journey would be a recantation of our principles.
3 Of course, Canidia is not mollified by such a recantation as this.
4 Yet this recantation is more in evidence against than then his original purpose.
5 The bishop then sent him a paper of recantation to sign.
6 It was a recantation of my faith, there condemned as erroneous.
7 If he offends again after recantation , it is felony without benefit of clergy.
8 A palinodia, a recantation was necessary to me, and I have achieved it.
9 Why go to the fire when a recantation will save you from it?
10 The gallery broke into screams, catcalls, hisses and protests against Joan's shameless recantation .
11 He never retracted his recantation till he found he had made it in vain.
12 It's a review, not a recantation of the spec list.
13 I demand a recantation of your unfounded charges, and an apology for their utterance.
14 Their humiliating return and recantation broke the 'Golden Chain' of Hellenic thought for ever.
15 Darwin's recantation is at Volume I., page 459 of the second edition.)
16 The Social Revolutionaries should be allowed to prove in deeds the sincerity of their recantation .
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