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third-person singular simple present resiles, present participle resiling, simple past and past participle resiled
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. quotations examples
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, page 594
To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body. examples