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Resile

verb
(past & past part. resiled; pres. part. resiling)
1.
Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc..
2.
Spring back; spring away from an impact.  Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop.  "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
3.
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.  Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract.  "She abjured her beliefs"
4.
Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed.





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"Resile" Quotes from Famous Books



... prior one, and places the whole order of sequences—whether physical, moral, political, or religious—under the government of "natural law," as contradistinguished from that of a "supernatural will." There is thus a manifest tendency to resile from the old theory of Chance, and to take refuge in the new asylum of Law, Order, or Destiny. There is, apparently, a wide difference between the two contrasted systems; and yet the difference may be, after all, more seeming than real: for both the ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan


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