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climb-down
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climb-down, n.
a retraction of a previously held position. [WordNet 1.5]
"I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics." [1913 Webster]
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