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n. - Letting pass without notice.

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  • This same carelessness or purposeful pretermission is evident in recent U.S. efforts to shepherd the negotiations process between the Taliban and the Afghan government,...
  • The only objections they would occasionally make, would refer to the pretermission of some such thing as a tassel in the cap.
  • Any disorder of mine, any pretermission of theirs, exalts the disease, accelerates the rages of it; no diligence accelerates the concoction, the maturity of the disease;...
  • Having thus briefly considered the original and office of a critic, as the word is understood in its most noble and universal acceptation, I proceed to refute the objections of...
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