#recantation

• 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.
• 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.