unwitness

present singular third person unwitnesses · participle present unwitnessing · participle past unwitnessed · past unwitnessed

1. intransitiveTo undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee.

   The path you witness today you unwitness tomorrow. And despite all this, your toe will be the milestone opposing your heels.

   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 11 Apr 2017

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   "There's a phenomenon in colonial studies and it's called unwitnessing," [Rachel] 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."

   [2020 November 27, Logan Perley, “Rediscovering The Brothers islands”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2023