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

"I unsay every word," said Mr. Merridew, for the second time, and more pointedly than ever; for, even in his really generous emotion, he could not help feeling that it was unsaying a great deal.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.

But what is all this, good worthy Baxter, but saying and unsaying?

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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