unassert
English
Etymology
Verb
unassert (third-person singular simple present unasserts, present participle unasserting, simple past and past participle unasserted)
- (transitive) To take back a previous assertion; to recant something.
- Thomas Carlyle
- I, having once been led to assert the fable, hold myself bound, on all fit occasions, to unassert it with equal emphasis.
- Thomas Carlyle