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Definition of Resile
1. Verb. Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.. "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
2. Verb. Spring back; spring away from an impact. "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
Specialized synonyms: Kick, Kick Back, Recoil, Bound Off, Skip, Carom
Generic synonyms: Bound, Jump, Leap, Spring
Derivative terms: Bounce, Bounce, Bound, Rebound, Recoil, Resiliency, Resilient, Ricochet, Spring
3. Verb. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. "She abjured her beliefs"
Generic synonyms: Disown, Renounce, Repudiate
Derivative terms: Abjuration, Abjurer, Forswearing, Recantation, Retraction
4. Verb. Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed. "The rubber tubes resile"
Derivative terms: Resilience, Resilience, Resiliency, Resilient
Definition of Resile
1. v. i. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Definition of Resile
1. Verb. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. ¹
2. Verb. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resile
1. to spring back [v -SILED, -SILING, -SILES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resile
Literary usage of Resile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Deeds Chiefly Affecting Moveables by Alexander Duff (1840)
"MAY THE PARTIES resile ?—The submission is, in strict language, an incomplete
transaction prior to decree ; but as the intermediate power to resile would be ..."
2. Latin Phrases and Maxims: Collected from the Institutional and Other Writers by John Trayner (1861)
"Even in such a case, however, the right to resile is cut off, if anything has
been done ... The parties have uu power to resile where res non est Integra. ..."
3. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"Answered, No such custom proved ; besides, it is most unequal and irrational for
the tenant to have liberty to resile, and not the locator or setter ..."
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