unconfess

verb

Etymology

From un- + confess.

  1. derived from confessus
  2. derived from confesser
  3. derived from confesser
  4. inherited from confessen
  5. prefixed as unconfess — “un + confess

Definitions

  1. To retract a confession.

    • 'It's no good trying to unconfess what three sessions of Auditing have uncovered. That boy is a devil.'
    • 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.
    • Like there's no established ensemble for driving your son's widow home after she's confessed and then unconfessed to his murder.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA