Meanings of pretermit in English

Frost nor I should wish him to pretermit his duty on any consideration whatever.

We mean to visit this to-morrow; so I may pretermit further mention of it here.

I begged him not to pretermit his GUARDIAN, but to examine it and give me the news.

But fear was too weak a counsellor for her to pretermit either her composure or her pleasures.

Now in the sairvice of Goad and the King 'tis raight to pretermit no aiffort to bring the guilty to justice.

It cannot be demanded of me to pretermit, because of my crime, the duty more strongly required of me because of the crime.

The convention did not pretermit the duty of reiterating those principles, and you will find them prominently set forth in the resolutions it adopted.

These incidents took place during Lent 1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger.

For the time the volcano seemed to have pretermitted its activity.

It had been pretermitted for the first time, because of my daughter's illness.

Habit had enabled him to work and talk at the same time, and he never pretermitted either.

While this deadly industry went on, the more strictly military operations were not pretermitted day nor night.

But pretermitting these instances, was it

Uncertain, it was true, might be the event of the war, but inevitable was the ruin if it were pretermitted.

The pleasant musical evenings, however, which John had formerly been used to spend in the company of Mr. Gaskell were now entirely pretermitted.

'Then why not forgive him at once if the punishment is not essential-if part can be pretermitted?