pretermit

Example Sentences

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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

Still the Inquisition did not entirely pretermit its labors.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

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

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

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)