"unwitness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + witness.",
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    {
      "form": "unwitnesses",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "unwitnessing",
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      "form": "unwitnessed",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "[2020 November 27, Logan Perley, “Rediscovering The Brothers islands”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-27",
          "text": "\"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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        "To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee."
      ],
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          "unsee",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "unwitnessed"
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  "word": "unwitness"
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  "etymology_text": "From un- + witness.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "unwitnessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "unwitnessed",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "unwitnessed",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "[2020 November 27, Logan Perley, “Rediscovering The Brothers islands”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-27",
          "text": "\"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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      ],
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        "To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee."
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