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What does pretermit mean?

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Verb
  1. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.
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It cannot be demanded of me to pretermit, because of my crime, the duty more strongly required of me because of the crime.
He greeted me with a brief nod and a grim smile, but did not pretermit his paternal functions.
Here follow in Mr. Plush's MS. about twenty-four pages of railroad calculations, which we pretermit.
Then there are all manner of the ordinary maladies of humanity, which I pretermit.
But all will be expected, in the ensuing term, to proceed to those which they now pretermit.
We pretermit events more or less irritating to follow the urbane Englishman.

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