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Vinony

resile

verb

  1. recant or renege on a belief or agreement
  2. spring back to original shape
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzaɪl/ / /ɹəˈzaɪl/ / /ɹiˈzaɪl/

verb

Etymology: From Middle French resiler (compare French résilier), from Latin resiliō (“spring back”), from re- (“back”) + saliō (“to jump”).

  1. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

    “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.”

  2. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.