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Retraction   /ritrˈækʃən/   Listen
Retraction

noun
1.
A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.  Synonyms: abjuration, recantation.
2.
The act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back.  "Retraction of the foreskin"






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"Retraction" Quotes from Famous Books



... the English universities, but especially upon Oxford. And the nature of the assault does not allow any latitude in construing the word boys, nor any room for evasion as respects the total charge, except what goes the length of a total retraction. The charge is, that, in a requisition made at the very threshold of academic life, upon the under standing and the honor of the students, the university burdens their consciences to an extent, which, in after life, when reflection has enlightened them to the ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... read the other's thought, and, although there was no outward sign, Harold Mainwaring knew from that instant that there would be no retraction of that pledge. ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour

... Such ideas, expressed in grandiloquent phrase, could not be regarded as indicating a pacific feeling. Every social class in France had a grievance; yet amid the din of arms, and in the dazzling splendors of military preparation, even the retraction of the Concordat attracted little attention, and a few riots in Dutch cities, which were the only open manifestation of discontent throughout the whole Empire, aroused no interest at all. The report of Napoleon's conciliatory attitude had gone abroad, there was money in the treasury, ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... could not intimidate Henry, who was sustained in his purpose by a conviction of its justice. He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen



Words linked to "Retraction" :   motion, disclaimer, climb-down, move, retract, backdown, movement, disavowal, withdrawal, motility



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