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Retractation   Listen
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Retractation  n.  The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Retractation" Quotes from Famous Books



... extraordinary suggestion is its irreverence. It assumes that the Gospel according to St. John was composed like any ordinary modern book: capable therefore of being improved in the second edition, by recension, addition, omission, retractation, or what not. For we may not presume to limit the changes effected in a second edition. And yet the true Author of the Gospel is confessedly God the Holy Ghost: and I know of no reason for supposing that His works are imperfect when they ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

... been said by me, cannot so far injure Wyatt, unless it is perverted. But what I have said are facts, which I will not retract, and they are of that nature which need no retractation. My memory is as good as yours. I am striving to do right, the same as yourself, and will contend that you are as liable to be mistaken as I am, especially when I knew him in different circumstances. I blame you not for doing every thing that is right to make ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green

... overwhelmed the defendant himself. Reasonably Ralegh 'was much amazed.' He could not have anticipated Cobham's retractation of his retractation. He perceived the new peril in which he was plunged by the statement that he had solicited, or been offered by Cobham, a Spanish pension, though, as he told the King in January, 1604, so little account ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing



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