Citations:unsign


 * 1971, Richard Hayes Barry, Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina, page 116:
 * It was almost as absurd as hoping the King could be induced to unsign what he had signed. Neither was suggested as a serious possibility.

"not sign"

 * 1858, A. J. B. Beresford, Newspapers and their Writers, published in Cambridge Essays (in London by John W. Parker and Son, West Strand), volume 4, page 14:
 * He has only to write 'I' for 'we' and append his name. He will, to be sure, forfeit that importance which attaches to the corporate allusions of the unsigning journalist; but if the signature be made imperative, this loss will become one common to the whole class. In the interim, the signer's articles will be given as 'letters' or as 'communications,'

ancient citation of unclear meaning

 * 1678 November 19, in a letter published in 1906 in the Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P., new series, volume 4, page 476:
 * That since counter-signing was necessary for every warrant, it implied His Majesty referring to his Minister the examination of what was fit or not fit, and, tho' he did not advise the signing, yet the obligation was to advise the unsigning, and ignorance or inadvertence of the matter was no plea,

something in the field of logic

 * 1997, Colin Howson, Logic With Trees: An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, page 19:
 * Using the same unsigning procedure as for ∧, we obtain the pair of unsigned conjugate diagrams for ∨:

opposite of "sign up": "remove, break ties with"

 * 2002, Michael Backman, Charlotte Butler, Big In Asia: 25 Strategies for Business Success, page 301:
 * One problem with signing up politically influential partners is that unsigning them can prove difficult.