Recantation

noun

1. The act of recanting; retraction; especially, solemn renunciation or abjuration of a doctrine or religious system previously maintained, with acknowledgment that it is erroneous.
2. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
3. the act of recanting or something recanted
4. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion