revoke
Definition: To rescind; to take back
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The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
..." And is there no means of making him revoke his decision ? "...
Jennie Gerhardt - By Theodore Dreiser, Harper & Brothers
...It was but a five minutes ' task to wrrfe a note to the judge asking him to revoke the fine, for the sake of the boy 's character, and send it by a messenger to his home ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...Indeed, " said she, " if I could altogether cancel the remembrance that Mr. Sparsit was a Powler, or that I myself am related to the Scadgers family; or if I could even revoke the fact, and make myself a person of common descent and ordinary connections; I would gladly do so ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...It is recorded, then, that as soon as Sancho had gone, Don Quixote felt his loneliness, and had it been possible for him to revoke the mandate and take away the government from him, he would have done so ....
Bleak House - By Charles Dickens, Frederick Barnard
...Now, does Sir Leicester become worEe; restless, uneasy, and in great ing, I revoke no disposition I have made I pain ....
Vivian Grey - By Benjamin Disraeli
...This Beckendorff granted, on the condition that, in case the Grand Duke assented to the terms proposed, his Royal Highness should himself be the bearer of the proposition; and that there should be no more written promises to recall, and no more written authorities to revoke ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...Should he apply directly to Mr Brooke, and demand of that troublesome gentleman to revoke his proposal ?...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - By Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
...If any thought that now, in that solemn hour when all transgressors repent and confess, she would revoke her revocation and say her great deeds had been evil deeds and Satan and his fiends their source, they erred ....
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...He therefore resumed his resolution, and taking leave of Black George, set forward to a town about five miles distant, whither he had desired Mr. Allworthy, unless he pleased to revoke Ms sentence, to send his things after him ....
The Duke's Children - By Anthony Trollope
...And then she told him to his face that unless he did something which it would be impossible that he should do, she would revoke her opinion of his honesty !...
Paul Patoff - By Francis Marion Crawford
...He would have given much to be able to revoke the past and to weave more affection into his remembrance of his brother; and at the idea that he might perhaps never see him again, he turned pale, and twisted his fingers uneasily in his agitation ....
The King, the Kaiser and Irish Freedom - By James K. McGuire
...(2) The term of office of the Lord Lieutenant shall be six years without prejudice to the power of His Majesty at any time to revoke the appointment ....
A Modern Instance - By William Dean Howells
...In the second place, there was hardly anything in his rigmarole the other day that he had n't told iue down there in the lumber camp, with full authority to use it in any way I liked; and I do n't see how he could revoke that authority ....