unpromise
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (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.
- Promises are no fetters: with that tongue
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)