pretermit
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Now in the sairvice of Goad and the King 'tis raight to pretermit no aiffort to bring the guilty to justice.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 George MacDonald
Then there are all manner of the ordinary maladies of humanity, which I pretermit.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
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 George Eliot
“The law ensures that the pretermitted heir is treated fairly and receives a portion of the estate as if there was no will in place,” the firm says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
The pleasant musical evenings, however, which John had formerly been used to spend in the company of Mr. Gaskell were now entirely pretermitted.
From The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
The usual afternoon trade-winds had pretermitted their rapid, panting breath, and the whole coast lay, as it were, in the hush of death.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
It is true that the over-population was at least as dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that nowadays some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore have been fortunately pretermitted.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
That Sunday afternoon the whole town pretermitted its afternoon nap and flocked up past the Warren to view the camp.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Daughters performed the said offices to their fathers, and sisters to their brothers; not pretermitting those who did not neglect their broken-pated bachelors to whom they paid equal attention.
From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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