Previous Recipients in Mail will not stay deleted

Email addresses that I have used previously (but don't want) keep autofilling in Mail's TO: field.
I have gone to Window>Previous Recipients and deleted these emails but they autofill again the next time I am on my computer.
How can I permanently delete these pesky Previous Recipients?

raelibark wrote:
Thank you so much for your response. I do want to know what the long term effect of this action will be.
there won't be any. you'll just have to start accumulating "previous recipients" from scratch.
Will I still have the autofill feature in Mail?
yes.
Will the "good" Previous Recipients repopulate after I have emailed them?
yes.

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