pretermission

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pretermission

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From Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.

noun pretermissions

countable, uncountable Omission; failure to do something. [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.
countable, uncountable Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis.

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@misc{pretermission_2026,
  title = {pretermission},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pretermission},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}