#recant

• To abjure — To publicly and solemnly renounce a religious belief, a philosophical or political doctrine, or a previously taken oath; to disown a deeply held conviction before an authority. Historically, the term refers to the official retraction of a heresy, whereas in modern terms it is used to describe a radical and conscious shift in ethical or ideological principles.
• Abjuration — The act of abjuring and its result; the public, solemn, and formal renunciation of a belief, doctrine, or sacred promise. In a historical context, abjuration represented a written legal-religious act, often required for the reconciliation of an individual with the ecclesiastical community from which they had been excluded.
• Abjured — That has been publicly and solemnly renounced, disowned, or withdrawn; (about convictions, oaths, dogmas, or doctrines) officially abandoned before an authority. The term describes the status of a belief or ideology that has undergone a formal recantation.
• Abjurer — A person who abjures; one who publicly and solemnly renounces a belief, doctrine, ideology, or a previously taken oath of allegiance. As an adjective, it qualifies a behavior, a group, or a text that expresses or contains a formal disavowal of core convictions.
• To self-contradict — To autonomously retract, deny, or contradict a statement, declaration, or position previously expressed; to publicly or officially acknowledge that one's own words or actions were erroneous, inaccurate, or untruthful. In a journalistic or political context, it describes the act by which a leader or agency revises an official communiqué to cancel its validity.
• Self-retraction — The act of self-contradicting and its result; an official, voluntary, and autonomous retraction of a statement, declaration, or position previously expressed by the same person or institution. This structural act restores the factual or legal truth in the public space, canceling the validity of an erroneous communiqué issued in the past.
• Self-retracted — Having been retracted, denied, or contradicted by its own author or by the issuing institution; a statement, rumor, or official communiqué that was declared null or inaccurate autonomously by the one who initially launched it. In a structural sense, it defines the state of a public text whose validity has been withdrawn.