unwitness

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ witness.

Verb

unwitness (third-person singular simple present unwitnesses, present participle unwitnessing, simple past and past participle unwitnessed)

  1. (intransitive) To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee.
    • 2016 November 8, Benito del Pliego, “Translation Tuesday: Five Poems by Benito del Pliego”, in Sam Carter, transl., edited by Katharine Viner, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-11:
      The path you witness today you unwitness tomorrow. And despite all this, your toe will be the milestone opposing your heels.
    • , archived from the original on 2023-01-27:
      "There's a phenomenon in colonial studies and it's called unwitnessing," Bryant said. "If material or something that you encounter, it doesn't fit within your understanding, or within a collective understanding of history or of place, then that material can't lodge permanently in a collective consciousness."]

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