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English
Etymology
From Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.
Noun
pretermission (countable and uncountable, plural pretermissions)
- Omission; failure to do something.
1670, John Milton, “The Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. , London: J M for James Allestry, , →OCLC, page 28:[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.
- Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis.
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