pretermit

Example Sentences

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It cannot be demanded of me to pretermit, because of my crime, the duty more strongly required of me because of the crime.

From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George

This you must be pleased to let me have again, for I borrow it: for the other, I will pretermit no time to write it; though in good faith, I have half forgot it.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

Members with a taste for writing, having some carefully thought out message to deliver on an intricate topic of foreign or domestic policy are increasingly inclined entirely to pretermit the parliamentary stage of their exposition.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

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

I must, therefore, reluctantly pretermit all such matter—reserving for some other occasion the gratification of the public curiosity therein.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton