climbdown

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A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a back-down or backing down

Thursday's court appearance as he waited for his case to be heard was a humiliating climbdown for the flamboyant Texan, who sports the clipped mustache and Saville Row style of English aristocracy. — Texas cricket mogul pleads not guilty to fraud by Kate Murphy, The Age, June 26 2009.

{i} backdown, change of opinion, withdrawal from a previously held position; act of admitting one was wrong