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verb

Unsay v. t. (past & past part. unsaid; pres. part. unsaying) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. "You can say and unsay things at pleasure."

adjective

Unsaid adj. See said.

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"Unsaid" Quotes from Famous Books

... turn to stare. "Suppose you conduct yourself," was on my tongue, but I let it escape unsaid. "Come, then," I ...

— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

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... and the more deeply was he smitten with penitence at her continued tears. Now he felt that no man could have the courage to leave a world which contained so beautiful a creature; and now he would have given forty minutes of his last hour to have unsaid ...

— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson

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... If aught thou hast unsaid, sister, be free And speak. Between this man and us no bar Cometh nor stint, but the utter rage of war. [She goes and stands over the body. ...

— The Electra of Euripides • Euripides

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... shake of his head the farmer regarded the strange child. He felt something like annoyance rise within him; an angry word rose to the lips of the usually good tempered man. But it remained unsaid; he was unable to remove his ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various

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... are able to divine what is in each other's mind without it being necessary to speak. Still, I wish you to understand that we never allow this power to spoil conversation. You might, perhaps, think that because we know what each was about to say, the words would remain unsaid, and we would, therefore, be a rather taciturn people. That is not so. The faculty is a very useful one to us on many occasions; but, as I remarked, we never ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

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