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

They had appeared in too many instances; and, though frightened at his anger, she stood still, without unsaying her words.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

There was a sort of mad entreaty in his eyes, as if he hoped that by unsaying she could remedy an irremediable disaster, and there was nothing left of him but those panic-stricken, beseeching eyes.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

Highness has a manner to-night which disconcerts me by its novelty; a saying things and then unsaying them; suggesting and then, somehow, treading down the suggestion like a spark of your lightning.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

But seeing himself thinks it more for his credit to tell the world of his saying and unsaying, declaring and undeclaring, let him be doing.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George