Synonyms of the word

recantation

• n. the act of recanting or something recanted.

abjuration

• n. A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
• n. A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
• n. The act of abjuring.

disavowal

• n. A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).

disclaimer

• n. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
• n. A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.
• n. (law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment…

retraction

• n. An act or instance of retracting.
• n. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion,…
• n. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on…