unwritev.
transitive. To cancel or abrogate the writing of (something); to annul or rescind (a writing).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)]
fordoOE
allayOE
withdrawc1290
withclepe13..
again-callc1390
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1400
unmakec1400
rive1415
annulc1425
abroge1427
uncommandc1430
discharge?a1439
retreatc1443
retract1501
cancela1513
abrogate?1520
dissolve1526
extinct1531
rescind1531
abrenounce1537
infringe1543
recall1565
unwrite1577
extinguish1590
exauctorate1593
relinquish1594
unact1594
to strike off1597
undecide1601
unpass1606
to take off1609
to draw back1610
reclaim1615
to put back1616
abrenunciate1618
unrip1622
supersedeate1641
to set off1642
unassure1643
unorder1648
to ask away1649
disdetermine1651
unbespeak1661
undecree1667
reassumea1675
off-break1702
circumduct1726
raise1837
resiliate1838
denounce1841
disorder1852
pull1937
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 113/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I What he wrote hee ment not to vnwryte.
1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 6 Since mercylesse she made that chartyre..Sign'd with those hands which neuer can vnwrite it.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 65 Yee write them in your closets, and unwrite them in your Courts.
1820 J. Keats in Rossetti Life (1887) 96 My poor poem, which I would willingly take the trouble to unwrite, if possible.
1861 Court Life at Naples II. 269 It is easier to unsay than to unwrite cross words.
1888 Gladstone in Daily News 6 Nov. 6/3 You cannot un~write or rewrite the law of time.
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