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Synonyms:
- about-face, backsliding, abnegation, renouncement, betrayal, accept, desertion, crossing, retraction, turnabout, disavowal, dereliction, palinode, apostasy, withdrawal, abdication, abandonment, abjuration, defection, recantation, denial
Examples:
- - Subsequently to Mr. Chambers' protest, and not till, as I have said, six thousand copies of the " Origin of Species" had been issued, the sentence complained of by Mr. Chambers was expunged, but without a word of retractation, and the passage which Mr. Allen thinks so generous was inserted into the " brief but imperfect" sketch which Mr. Darwin prefixed- after Mr. Chambers had been effectually snuffed out- to all subsequent editions of his " Origin of Species." - "Luck or Cunning?", Samuel Butler
- - All my books are excommunicated; but I will give you a good proof of my retractation." - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- - If Long and Beauchamp could reject my solemn affirmation three years ago, what would a retractation slowly wrung from them be worth to me now? - "The Clever Woman of the Family", Charlotte M. Yonge
