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praetermit

praetermit is the alternative form of pretermit.

Meaning of pretermit

Verb

pretermit (third-person singular simple present pretermits, present participle pretermitting, simple past and past participle pretermitted)

  1. (transitive) To intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit.
    • [F]or the public, for the redemption of the whole world, God hath (shall we say, pretermitted?) derelicted, forsaken, abandoned, his own, and only Son.a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “Sermon LXXXII. Preached at a Marriage.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume IV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published...

Forms of praetermit

third-person singular presentpraetermits
present participlepraetermitting
past participlepraetermitted
pastpraetermitted

Questions about praetermit

What is praetermit the alternative form of?
Praetermit is the alternative form of pretermit.

Words near praetermit in the dictionary

  1. praeterists
  2. praeteritio
  3. praeterition
  4. praeteritions
  5. praeteritios
  6. praetermit
  7. praetermits
  8. praetermitted
  9. praetermitting
  10. praeternatural
  11. praeternature

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praetermit (page history and authors); pretermit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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