different between retraction vs repudiation

English

re- +? traction

retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)

An act or instance of retracting.
A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
(mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

From Latin repudi?ti?nem, equivalent to repudiate +? -ion.

repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural repudiations)

The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict with his religious parents.

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