Uncause

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To revert or undo the causing of an act or action.

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To revert or undo the causing of an act or action
2. (transitive) To block or withstand the causing of an act or action
3. Absence of cause

Example Sentences

The truth is simply this: that which causes marriage also uncauses it.

Does the new soul, by itself, “cause” the conception? Can I then not uncause it?

It is conceptually wrong to assert that a person makes a causal contribution to an act and its consequences when it is already being caused by others, simply because she fails to do some other act to uncause what is in progress.

Origin, in the last resort, means uncause. If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning.

If uncause can enter the business of decision and liberate it from determinacy, its natural locus, we may think, is the origination of the sequels, in a sense more absolute than the mere putting together of ingredients.

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Word Forms

• uncauses
• uncausing
• uncaused

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