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