Unsaying [noun]

Definition of Unsaying:

recantation

Synonyms of Unsaying:

● Denial

● Annulment

● Reversal

● Repudiation

● Disclaimer

● Revocation

● About-face

● Withdrawal

● Abrogation

● Abjuration

● Contradiction

● Abnegation

● Recall

● Nullification

● Disavowal

● Forswearing

● Volte-face

● Contraversion


Opposite/Antonyms of Unsaying:

● Corroboration

● Confirmation


Sentence/Example of Unsaying:

I gave him no chance of unsaying with grace or credit what he could not fail to regret that he had said.

He could not conceive of the Titan unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.

Thus Picardy is famous for “hot heads;” and the Norman for son dit et son ddit, “his saying and his unsaying!”