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/oʊmˈɪt/ Listen

verb

Omit v. t. (past & past part. omitted; pres. part. omitting)

To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. "These personal comparisons I omit."

To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over. "Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the austere beauty of her face," assented the artist. "I should not want to omit them in modelling Arachne while the goddess is transforming her into a spider! What a subject! A bolder one was scarcely ever attempted and, like you, I already see ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... relatives by the king's just sentence, although they were in reality guilty. This was the origin of the hostility of the great men of the country to King Olaf, that they could not bear his just judgments. He again would rather renounce his dignity than omit righteous judgment. The accusation against him, of being stingy with his money, was not just, for he was a most generous man towards his friends; but that alone was the cause of the discontent raised against ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... I purposely omit the name and address of the writer is a sample of many hundreds of letters received by Governor St John. Many of them he placed in our hands to reply. But neither the governor nor our association could do any thing to bring these ...

— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... written for the ignorant classes.' There are men who know a foreign language so well and have used it so long in their daily life that they seem to discharge whole volleys of it into their English writings unconsciously, and so they omit to translate, as much as half the time. That is a great cruelty to nine out of ten of the man's readers. What is the excuse for this? The writer would say he only uses the foreign language where the delicacy of his point cannot be conveyed ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... appropriates five loads of cloth which have been dispatched by the Government, and the district of Saint-Gervais opposes the decision of the Hotel-de-Ville. To-morrow Versailles intercepts grain destined for Paris, while Paris threatens, if it is not restored, to march on Versailles. I omit the incidents that are ridiculous:[1405] anarchy in its essence is both tragic and grotesque, and, in this universal breaking up of things, the capital, like the kingdom, resembles a bear-garden when it ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine

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