pretermit

Example Sentences

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What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

We will pretermit these absurd and silly men: but, Cousin Lucian!

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

He calmly said that no such demonstrations could induce him to add to or withhold a single syllable of what he designed to say, or to pretermit a single act he had designed to do.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

Freke, telling his funny stories, did not for one moment pretermit his study of the little comedy before him—Jacqueline and Throckmorton and Judith.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot