Pretermit

Quick meaning: Pretermit is a verb meaning (transitive) To intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit.

Meaning

(transitive) To intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit.

Example Sentences

[V]arious subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.

[F]or the public, for the redemption of the whole world, God hath (shall we say, pretermitted?) derelicted, forsaken, abandoned, his own, and only Son.

The fees, or allowances, that are termly given to these deputies, receiver, and clerks, for recompence of these their pains, I do purposely pretermit; because they be not certain, but arbitrary.

The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).

Word Forms

• pretermits
• pretermitting
• pretermitted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include praetermit, omit, forget, neglect, fail, overjump.

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