unnotify

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ notify

Verb[edit]

unnotify (third-person singular simple present unnotifies, present participle unnotifying, simple past and past participle unnotified)

  1. (transitive, rare) To cancel (a notification).
    • July 3, 1757, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
      I notified to you the settlement of the Ministry, and, contrary to late custom, have not to unnotify it again. However, it took ten days to complete, after an inter-ministerium of exactly three months.
  2. (transitive, rare) To notify (a person) that a prior notification should now be disregarded.
    • 1950, George A. Hamid, University of Michigan-Flint: Arab-American Archives Project, Circus (page 182)
      "Well, you unnotify the railroad," Mugivan stormed.