THESAURUS
abjuration
abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cessation, cession, chucking, chucking out, cold storage, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declination, declining, denial, desistance, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discontinuance, discounting, dismissal, disowning, disownment, dispensation, disposal, disposition, disproof, disregard, dropping out, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forbearance, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, handing over, ignoring, impugnment, letting go, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nonexercise, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relinquishment, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, resignation, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, riddance, sacrifice, scouting, spurning, surrender, suspension, swearing off, throwing out, turning out, unsaying, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding
ROGET THESAURUS
abjuration
Tergiversation
N
tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation,
abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
Resignation
N
resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation,
abjuration, abandonment, relinquishment, abdicant, Othello's occupation's gone.
Negation
N
negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer,
abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition, denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon, no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time, there never was a greater mistake, I know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no.