"unconfess" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Chip Martin, A School of London: A Trilogy, page 319",
          "text": "'It's no good trying to unconfess what three sessions of Auditing have uncovered. That boy is a devil.'",
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          "ref": "2014, Shuen-fu Lin, Stephen Owen, The Vitality of the Lyric Voice, page 91",
          "text": "In the third couplet he confesses his destitution, says straightforwardly what he had said in the first couplet through the negations of irony; he confesses his utter destitution only to unconfess it in the final couplet.",
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          "ref": "2021, Cate Quinn, Black Widows, page 363",
          "text": "Like there's no established ensemble for driving your son's widow home after she's confessed and then unconfessed to his murder.",
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        "To retract a confession."
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        "(rare, transitive, intransitive) To retract a confession."
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  "word": "unconfess"
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  "etymology_text": "un- + confess",
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