unpromise
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unpromise (third-person singular simple present unpromises, present participle unpromising, simple past and past participle unpromised)
- (transitive) To revoke or annul (something promised before).
- 1605, George Chapman, All Fools:
- Promises are no fetters: with that tongue
Thy promise past, unpromise it again.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unpromise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)