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with Anu Gargpretermit
PRONUNCIATION:
(pree-tuhr-MIT)
MEANING:
verb tr.:1. To let pass without mention. 2. To suspend or to leave undone. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin praetermittere (to let pass), from praeter (beyond, past) +
mittere (to let go, send).
USAGE:
"In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his [Pitt Crawley's]
hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone,
he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises."William Makepeace Thackeray; Vanity Fair; 1847. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To fully understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
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