Meaning & use
Resile
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To draw back from a commitment, position, or agreement; to retreat or withdraw, especially in a legal or formal sense.
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The company later tried to resile from the terms of the contract it had signed.
A party cannot simply resile from a binding agreement without legal consequence.
A note on using this word
Chiefly used in British, Scottish, and Commonwealth legal English; it shares a Latin root, resilire ('to leap back'), with 'resilient.'
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