pretermit

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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

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

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 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

I must, therefore, reluctantly pretermit all such matter—reserving for some other occasion the gratification of the public curiosity therein.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton