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unconfess en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + confess.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To retract a confession.
   • 'It's no good trying to unconfess what three sessions of Auditing have uncovered. That boy is a devil.' 2011, Chip Martin, A School of London: A Trilogy, page 319:
   • In the third couplet he confesses his destitution, says straightforwardly what he had said in the first couplet through the negations of irony; he confesses his utter destitution only to unconfess it in the final couplet. 2014, Shuen-fu Lin, Stephen Owen, The Vitality of the Lyric Voice, page 91:
   • Like there's no established ensemble for driving your son's widow home after she's confessed and then unconfessed to his murder. 2021, Cate Quinn, Black Widows, page 363:

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