resile

Example Sentences

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"She does not resile from anything she said then. This email was sent in the context of advice the Duchess was given to try to assuage Epstein and his threats."

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

However, she added: "No responsible Labour government can resile from taking decisions because they are too difficult because that is not good enough for the people we came into politics to serve."

From BBC • May 21, 2025

But he added he did not "resile from my strongly held views" on the conflict.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

The strict dictionary definition of "resile" is "draw back, recoil . . . return to its original position as an elastic body."

From Time Magazine Archive

There is thus a manifest tendency to resile from the old theory of Chance, and to take refuge in the new asylum of Law, Order, or Destiny.

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James