Enwrite vs Unwrite - What's the difference?
enwrite | unwrite |
To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
*1905 , Iowa State Education Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session :
*1863 , Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe :
To retract an edict or law.
* 1847 , John Frost, Pictorial Life of George Washington (page 131)
As verbs the difference between enwrite and unwrite
is that enwrite is to write upon something; inscribe; imprint while unwrite is to retract an edict or law.enwrite
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* (l)Verb
- It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.
- What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten / Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
unwrite
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Verb
- What has been written cannot be unwritten .
- Accordingly, in June, the governor, as if rescinding the resolution could unwrite the letter, demanded its erasure from the records of the house.