unconfess

present singular third person unconfesses · participle present unconfessing · participle past unconfessed · past unconfessed

1. ambitransitiverareTo 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

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   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