Usage examples (39)

• Verb (used with object), : The government temporarily pretermitted its repayments of foreign aid
• These incidents took place during Lent 1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger.
• But as I only stayed eight days in this place, and knew not a syllable of the language, perhaps it is as well to pretermit any disquisitions about the spirit of the people.
• The terror of his enemies (for 4, the marvel of his age, we pretermit, it being a loose term, that may apply to any person or thing) was now terrified by his enemies in...