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Pretermit

verb
(past & past part. pretermitted; pres. part. pretermitting)
1.
Disregard intentionally or let pass.
2.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"





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"Pretermit" Quotes from Famous Books



... gathering in dusky pools here and there where the trees stood thickest in the valley. The hush of nature's mystic hour was abroad, and even the swiftly flowing river, rushing sullenly along its rocky bed no more than a stone's cast beyond the Indian path, seemed to pretermit its low thunderings. There was never a breath of air astir in all the wood, and the leaves of the silver poplar that will twinkle and ripple in the lightest zephyr hung stark ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... ruminate with thyself now. To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actions of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen, the former of whom do pardon no offences, and the latter those only against God, having no warrant for more, canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... Israel; or of Jeremiah, who bade the Jews pray for the prosperity of Nebuchadnezzar. As for the Queen's aid, there is no harm in that: quia (these are his own words) quia omnia munda mundis: because to the pure all things are pure. One thing, in conclusion, he "may not pretermit"; to give the lie in the throat to his accuser, where he charges him with seeking support against his native country. "What I have been to my country," said the old Reformer, "What I have been to my country, albeit ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Pretermit" :   forget, pretermission, jump, skip, ignore, pass over, skip over, disregard, attend to


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