pretermit

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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

Members with a taste for writing, having some carefully thought out message to deliver on an intricate topic of foreign or domestic policy are increasingly inclined entirely to pretermit the parliamentary stage of their exposition.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

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

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

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

He greeted me with a brief nod and a grim smile, but did not pretermit his paternal functions.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various