resile

present singular third person resiles · participle present resiling · participle past resiled · past resiled

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.

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   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.

   2007, David Pollard et al., Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials, →ISBN, page 594

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