retractation

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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 Lindley, Augustus F.

Nor would the government fulfil its engagement to force the constitutional bishops to a retractation.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various

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 Callan, Charles Jerome

In his “Geständnisse,” the retractation of former opinions and profession of Theism are renewed, but in a strain of irony that repels our sympathy and baffles our psychology. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

What they demanded of him was a retractation of all the articles brought against him, with an unconditional submission to the council.

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