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unaccept

unaccept verb: to rescind one's acceptance of.

Verb

unaccept (third-person singular simple present unaccepts, present participle unaccepting, simple past and past participle unaccepted)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To rescind one's acceptance of.
    • Mr. Hurst interrupted, 'to have his name mixed up with shady people, as Ormond says; so, my dear! the long and short of it is, you must refuse her invitation to go there on this visit!' 'But I have accepted it.' 'Unaccept it then,' jocosely.1880, Mrs. Harry Bennett-Edwards, In Sheep's Clothing, volume 2, page 154
    • According to Spinoza's view, comprehension automatically entails acceptance, and only afterward is the mind able to proceed to unaccept the statement.1993, Sik Hung Ng, James J. Bradac, Power in language: verbal communication and social influence

Examples of unaccept in a sentence

  • Of course, they were free to unaccept that idea, but unacceptance was a secondary, deliberate revision of an initially accepted belief.1998, Michael Raymond DePaul, William M. Ramsey, Rethinking intuition: the psychology of intuition, page 49:
  • I was calling him about two or three hours after I'd accepted the job — to unaccept it.2000, James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld, Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks, page 369:
  • Her department had to decide which of the students would be “unaccepted.” Dr.2025 March 6, Stephanie Saul, “As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms of unaccept

third-person singular presentunaccepts
present participleunaccepting
past participleunaccepted
pastunaccepted

Origin of unaccept

From un- + accept.

Questions about unaccept

What does unaccept mean?
Unaccept means to rescind one's acceptance of.
How do you use unaccept in a sentence?
Of course, they were free to unaccept that idea, but unacceptance was a secondary, deliberate revision of an initially accepted belief.
What part of speech is unaccept?
Unaccept is a verb.
What is the past tense of unaccept?
The past tense of unaccept is unaccepted.

Words near unaccept in the dictionary

  1. unaccent
  2. unaccented
  3. unaccenting
  4. unaccents
  5. unaccentuated
  6. unaccept
  7. unacceptabilities
  8. unacceptability
  9. unacceptable
  10. unacceptableness
  11. unacceptables

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