pretermit

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What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

We will pretermit these absurd and silly men: but, Cousin Lucian!

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

But fear was too weak a counsellor for her to pretermit either her composure or her pleasures.

From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William

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

From A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Casas, Bartolomé de las