Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-TRACT'ION
RE-TRACT'ION, n. [from retract.]
- The act of withdrawing something advanced, or changing something done. – Woodward.
- Recantation; disavowal of the truth of what has been said; declaration of change of opinion. – Sidney.
- 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. – K. Charles.
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