01 n. a retraction of a previously held position.
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a retraction of a previously held position.“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.” — Burke.
Phrases & compounds
Grand climacteric —
the sixty-third year of human life.
Syn.
withdrawal, backdown.