retractation

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Some of the articles, he replied, charged him with teaching things which he had never taught, and he could not by this formal act of retractation admit that he had taught them.

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

His first anger over, he began to think how best he should obtain a meeting with Hemsworth, and a retractation of his calumnies against himself.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

Visitors arrived, and Gratarol's letter of retractation circulated through the city in a score of copies.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

The retractation and apology which Hearne afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

There may have been a few, whose strong confidence, in the bloodguiltiness of Stephen Boorn, had become slightly paralyzed, by his entire and absolute retractation of all his confessions, made before trial.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old