unconfess

Verb

unconfess (third-person singular simple present unconfesses, present participle unconfessing, simple past and past participle unconfessed)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To retract a confession.
   • 'It's no good trying to unconfess what three sessions of Auditing have uncovered. That boy is a devil.'2011, Chip Martin, A School of London: A Trilogy, page 319
   • 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.2014, Shuen-fu Lin, Stephen Owen, The Vitality of the Lyric Voice, page 91