pretermit

Example Sentences

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I, thinking it better to pretermit my speech to Harry, retreated into the library, and was glad to think that no one had seen that conference but myself.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George

In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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)

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

And thus I am, as you see me, returned to my former occupation, which I shall never again pretermit upon any motion of magnanimity.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.