retraction

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From re- + traction or retract + -ion.

He has, therefore, an instinctive aversion to all retractions and apologies. — Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States, John Ludlum McConnel
“I am come, Sir, to make an open retraction of the abuse, which, when in liquor, I uttered in your company. — Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pantagruel in the meantime said to the rest: I feel a pressing retraction in my soul, which like a voice admonishes me not to land there. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

abjuration, recantation

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