pretermission
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Should his child sicken unto death, why, look For scarce abatement of his cheerfulness, 160 Or pretermission of the daily craft!
From Men and Women by Porter, Charlotte Endymion
The only objections they would occasionally make, would refer to the pretermission of some such thing as a tassel in the cap.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Should his child sicken unto death,—why, look 160For scarce abatement of his cheerfulness, Or pretermission of the daily craft!
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)
