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pretermission

noun

Etymology

From Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.

  1. derived from praetermissio

Definitions

  1. Omission

    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.

  2. Preterition

    Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pretermission. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA