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pretermits

pretermits is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

Questions about pretermits

What is pretermits the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pretermits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pretermit.

Words near pretermits in the dictionary

  1. pretermination
  2. preterminations
  3. pretermission
  4. pretermissions
  5. pretermit
  6. pretermits
  7. pretermitted
  8. pretermitted child
  9. pretermitted children
  10. pretermitted heir
  11. pretermitted heirs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretermits (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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