unvotev.
1. To reverse or annul by revoting.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > make revocation [verb (intransitive)]
revokec1400
to call off1620
unvote1647
to fall off1710
obnounce1741
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > by voting > by re-voting
unvote1647
transitive.
intransitive.1648 R. Kentish Sure Stay for Sinking State 12 They..will vote and un-vote, as the times turn.1653 Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 108 They voted, unvoted, as fancy did guide.1647 in 7th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1879) App. 456/2 They were forced to unvote what they had passed the day before.
1708 Deplorable State of New-Eng. v. 35 The Business was so managed..that altho'..one Day it was Voted, That the Fort should be Attack'd, it was by 'nd by, Unvoted again.
2. transitive. To deprive by a vote. Const. of.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > by voting
unvote1658
resolve1798
1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. i. vii. 35 If they unchirotonized or unvoted God of the Kingdome.
Derivatives
unˈvoting n.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > by a vote
unvoting1643
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iv. 24 His Majesties..unvoting of their Votes in Parliament.
1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 40 A Bill for the un~voting, and utter exclusion of the Spirituall Lords from the Parliament.
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