Noah Webster
Retraction
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.