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

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

And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

"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.

She wrote again unsaying all she had said, but her father had been too much wounded to reply.

From The Third Miss Symons by Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald)