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  • verb rare To rescind one's acceptance of.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ accept

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Examples

  • When I played in the '70s, it was an unaccept -- it was an unwritten thing that it would be 75 percent of the players would be white, and 25 percent of the players would be black.

    CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009 2009

  • Never having caught "Reliable Sources," it occurred to me - unfortunately after I had already accepted the invitation to appear, which I subsequently had to unaccept - to cast around a bit on the Internets and find out a little about what I was getting into.

    Tom McCarthy: No Time to Lift Up the Rubble 2008

  • The question is, though, what varieties of faith do the Democrats find unaccept...

    Oh ye people of faith of little faith 2005

  • Their demands were ridiculous and unaccept - able.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • First of all, they saw in atomism a systematic mode of explanation, sanctified by time, with which they could confront the alterna - tives of Aristotelianism and Paracelsianism which many found intellectually stultifying and, because of the adherents of these other paths, often socially unaccept - able.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

  • As for the Brazilians white and black who seem to think they have the right to accept or unaccept people into their country, can kiss my ass!

    Home 2009

  • As for the Brazilians white and black who seem to think they have the right to accept or unaccept people into their country, can kiss my ass!

    Home 2009

  • Very seldomly there is a problem doing this and then we end up with an automated unaccept of them, but an unaccept there is usually never done by hand.

    Planet Debian 2009

  • As for the Brazilians white and black who seem to think they have the right to accept or unaccept people into their country, can kiss my ass!

    Home 2009

  • As for the Brazilians white and black who seem to think they have the right to accept or unaccept people into their country, can kiss my ass!

    Home 2009

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