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Meaning of pretermit | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/

Definitions

To intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit.

transitive

Equivalents

Español pretermitir
Português preterir

Examples

“[F]or the public, for the redemption of the whole world, God hath (shall we say, pretermitted?) derelicted, forsaken, abandoned, his own, and only Son.”
“The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).”
“The fees, or allowances, that are termly given to these deputies, receiver, and clerks, for recompence of these their pains, I do purposely pretermit; because they be not certain, but arbitrary.”
“[V]arious subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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