pretermit
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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 Stanley John Weyman
The convention did not pretermit the duty of reiterating those principles, and you will find them prominently set forth in the resolutions it adopted.
From Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 John Buchan
I have been led farther than I had foreseen, and various subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
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 John Donne
“The law ensures that the pretermitted heir is treated fairly and receives a portion of the estate as if there was no will in place,” the firm says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
For the time the volcano seemed to have pretermitted its activity.
From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White
It is true that the over-population was at least as dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that nowadays some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore have been fortunately pretermitted.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
That Sunday afternoon the whole town pretermitted its afternoon nap and flocked up past the Warren to view the camp.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In the first year, however, this last privilege had to be pretermitted.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
Daughters performed the said offices to their fathers, and sisters to their brothers; not pretermitting those who did not neglect their broken-pated bachelors to whom they paid equal attention.
From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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