unkiss
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[edit]unkiss (third-person singular simple present unkisses, present participle unkissing, simple past and past participle unkissed)
- (obsolete) To cancel or annul something that was done or sealed with a kiss.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me.