unwitness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unwitness (third-person singular simple present unwitnesses, present participle unwitnessing, simple past and past participle unwitnessed)
- (intransitive) To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee.
- 2016 November 8, Benito del Pliego, “Translation Tuesday: Five Poems by Benito del Pliego”, in Sam Carter, transl., edited by Katharine Viner, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-11:
- The path you witness today you unwitness tomorrow. And despite all this, your toe will be the milestone opposing your heels.
- [2020 November 27, Logan Perley, “Rediscovering The Brothers islands”, in CBC News[2], archived from the original on 2023-01-27:
- "There's a phenomenon in colonial studies and it's called unwitnessing," [Rachel] Bryant said. "If material or something that you encounter, it doesn't fit within your understanding, or within a collective understanding of history or of place, then that material can't lodge permanently in a collective consciousness."]
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “unwitness, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.