unpromise

English

Etymology

un- +‎ promise

Verb

unpromise (third-person singular simple present unpromises, present participle unpromising, simple past and past participle unpromised)

  1. (transitive) To revoke or annul (something promised before).
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
    • Robert Southey
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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