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pretermitting

pretermitting is the present participle and gerund 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 pretermitting

What is pretermitting the present participle and gerund of?
Pretermitting is the present participle and gerund of pretermit.

Words near pretermitting in the dictionary

  1. pretermitted children
  2. pretermitted heir
  3. pretermitted heirs
  4. pretermitted spouse
  5. pretermitted spouses
  6. pretermitting
  7. pretermity
  8. preterms
  9. preternatural
  10. preternaturalism
  11. preternaturalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretermitting (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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