pretermit

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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

I begged him not to pretermit his GUARDIAN, but to examine it and give me the news.

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

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

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

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 Eliot, George