Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

retractation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-trac-ta-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

retraction (of something previously said)

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers ."
"When he met Strether's eye on such occasions he looked guilty and furtive, fell the next minute into some attitude of retractation."

Etymology

Compare French rétractation, Latin retractatio (“a revision, reconsideration”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

retractations (plural)

Questions

What does retractation mean?: retraction (of something previously said)
Where does retractation come from?: Compare French rétractation, Latin retractatio (“a revision, reconsideration”).

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