retract
verb (used with object)
to draw back or in.
retractation
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a word derived from
retract.
Example Sentences
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Prepared as he was for his companion's 'fashion of uttering things easily,' he could scarcely have anticipated the layers of retractation still latent in that voluminous repository.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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 John Neville Figgis
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
Explicit reparation is made by retractation of one's words, by condemnation of one's acts, by the destruction of one's scandalous writings, by efforts to bring back to virtue those whom one has misled, etc.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
The patriarch Paul died, and Pyrrhus who had been patriarch before him was trying to recover his seat, but the retractation which he had offered to the Pope Theodorus was brought up against him.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
