Meaning of resile | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

Examples

“I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.”

“If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require⟳ that the public authority resiles in order⟳ properly to protect⟳ those wider interests.”

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