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What does resile mean?

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Verb
  1. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
  2. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
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One of the things that we should always avoid in universities is being forced by pressure to resile from our commitment to academic freedom.
The argument could not prevail because, whether or not the section was applicable, the decision to resile was not an administrative act.
I do not resile from what I've said and I remain angry at the loss of life that has taken place not far away from my constituency.
I do not resile from being constrained to point out injustices suffered by our clients as it is the job of any lawyer to do so.
Both political leaders have been under sustained pressure to resile from these positions since then.
The municipality's council resolved not to resile from the agreement but to conclude a settlement agreement designed to reach consensus on outstanding issues.

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