RETRAC'TION, noun [from retract.] 1. The act of withdrawing something advanced, or changing something done. 2. Recantation; disavowal of the truth of what has been said; declaration of change of opinion. 3. Act of withdrawing a claim. Other men's insatiable desire of revenge, hath beguiled church and state of the benefit of my retractions or concessions.
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