v. [UN-2 3.] trans. To cancel or abrogate the writing of (something); to annul or rescind (a writing).

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1586.  J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 104/2. What he wrote he meant not to vnwrite.

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1593.  B. Barnes, Poems (Grosart), 6. Since mercylesse she made that chartyre,… Sign’d with those hands which neuer can vnwrite it.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv., 65. Yee write them in your closets, and unwrite them in your Courts.

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1820.  Keats, in Rossetti, Life (1887), 96. My poor poem, which I would willingly take the trouble to unwrite, if possible.

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1861.  Court Life at Naples, II. 269. It is easier to unsay than to unwrite cross words.

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1888.  Gladstone, in Daily News, 6 Nov., 6/3. You cannot unwrite or rewrite the law of time.

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