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

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

"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