pretermit

Example Sentences

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Still the Inquisition did not entirely pretermit its labors.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

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 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

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

As it is so cold, I think you may pass the word to pretermit the rounds to-night—save two.

From The Long Night by Weyman, Stanley John