Definition of "pretermit" []

• To disregard intentionally or allow to pass unnoticed or unmentioned. (verb-transitive)
• To fail to do or include; omit. (verb-transitive)
• To interrupt or terminate. (verb-transitive)

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• ""pretermit" -- to use his own expression -- a narrative which he held essential to his fame."
• "These incidents took place during Lent 1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger."
• "Aboo Abdallah to defend his city; but as I do not wish to make a parade of my learning, or to write a costume novel, I shall pretermit any description of the city under its Moorish governors."