climb-down
climb-down , noun
1.
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.
Collocations (1)
Grand climacteric or Great climacteric , the sixty-third year of human life.