Pretermission

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Omission; failure to do something. countable, uncountable

    "[T]wentie Kings in a continu'd row, that either did nothing, or liv'd in Ages that wrote nothing, at leaſt a foul pretermiſſion in the Author of this, whether Story or Fable; himſeelf wearie, as ſeems, of his own tedious Tale."

  2. 2
    letting pass without notice wordnet
  3. 3
    Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis. countable, uncountable

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"[T]wentie Kings in a continu'd row, that either did nothing, or liv'd in Ages that wrote nothing, at leaſt a foul pretermiſſion in the Author of this, whether Story or Fable; himſeelf wearie, as ſeems, of his own tedious Tale."

Etymology

From Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.

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