unbespeak

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ bespeak.

Verb

unbespeak (third-person singular simple present unbespeaks, present participle unbespeaking, simple past unbespoke, past participle unbespoken)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To unsay; to annul or cancel something that has been said.
    • 1669 April 23 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 13th, 1669”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume VIII, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1896, →OCLC:
      [] after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and there sent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among other things, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow.

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