unsaying

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And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

Man saying one thing now, unsaying it anon, Breaking all Engagements, when deeds for him are done.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry

He could not conceive of the Titan "unsaying his high language, and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary."

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

Do you know, I almost feel tempted to give way to this Martinmas summer of love, to stultify my past by unsaying and undoing everything.

From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant

And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony