pretermit

Example Sentences

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As it is so cold, I think you may pass the word to pretermit the rounds to-night—save two.

From The Long Night by Weyman, Stanley John

But as I only stayed eight days in this place, and knew not a syllable of the language, perhaps it is as well to pretermit any disquisitions about the spirit of the people.

From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace

He greeted me with a brief nod and a grim smile, but did not pretermit his paternal functions.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

I pretermit their unparallel'd Impieties, &c. and only close all with this one Story that follows.

From A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Casas, Bartolomé de las

Now in the sairvice of Goad and the King 'tis raight to pretermit no aiffort to bring the guilty to justice.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John