pretermit
Example Sentences
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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
Then sayd the Accuser: Thou hast preached, sayd, and openly taught diuers and sundry other great errours and abhominable heresies agaynst all the vij. sacraments, which for shortnes of tyme I pretermit and ouer pass.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
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
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
I pretermit their unparallel'd Impieties, &c. and only close all with this one Story that follows.
