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- verb Present participle of
praetermit .
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Examples
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Silently we carry her chain out and noose it about a monster elm; silently we slip the legs under her channels, lift and make fast her stern moorings, lash the tiller for the last time, tie the coverings over cabintop and well; anxiously, with closed lips, praetermitting no due rite.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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And it so happens that down here we always take a glass of grog before inaugurating an era; we should as soon think of praetermitting this as of launching a ship without cracking a bottle on her stem.
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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