Retraction
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act or instance of retracting. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error. A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Abjuration
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.