pretermit

Example Sentences

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These incidents took place during Lent 1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger.

From A Second Home by Balzac, Honoré de

Then there are all manner of the ordinary maladies of humanity, which I pretermit.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

He calmly said that no such demonstrations could induce him to add to or withhold a single syllable of what he designed to say, or to pretermit a single act he had designed to do.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

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

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