pretermit
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/(UK)
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/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/(UK) · /ˌpɹidəɹˈmɪt/(US)
Definition of pretermit
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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.”
“The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).”
“The fees, or allowances, that are termly given to these deputies, receiver, and clerks, for recompence of these their pains, I do purposely pretermit; because they be not certain, but arbitrary.”
“[V]arious subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin praetermitto.
Words you can make from pretermit
130 playable · top: PERMITTER (13 pts)
Best play permitter 13 points9-letter words
1 word8-letter words
4 words7-letter words
10 words6-letter words
21 words5-letter words
26 words- PRIME 9 pts
- TEMPI 9 pts
- TEMPT 9 pts
- MERER 7 pts
- MERIT 7 pts
- METER 7 pts
- METRE 7 pts
- MITER 7 pts
- MITRE 7 pts
- PETER 7 pts
- PETIT 7 pts
- PETTI 7 pts
- PRIER 7 pts
- REMET 7 pts
- REMIT 7 pts
- RETEM 7 pts
- RIMER 7 pts
- RIPER 7 pts
- TIMER 7 pts
- TRIPE 7 pts
- RETIE 5 pts
- TETRI 5 pts
- TITER 5 pts
- TITRE 5 pts
- TRIER 5 pts
- TRITE 5 pts
4-letter words
32 words- PERM 8 pts
- PRIM 8 pts
- TEMP 8 pts
- EMIR 6 pts
- EMIT 6 pts
- ITEM 6 pts
- MEET 6 pts
- MERE 6 pts
- METE 6 pts
- MIRE 6 pts
- MITE 6 pts
- MITT 6 pts
- PEER 6 pts
- PERE 6 pts
- PERI 6 pts
- PERT 6 pts
- PIER 6 pts
- PREE 6 pts
- RIME 6 pts
- RIPE 6 pts
- TEEM 6 pts
- TERM 6 pts
- TIME 6 pts
- TREM 6 pts
- TRIM 6 pts
- TRIP 6 pts
- RETE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TREE 4 pts
- TRET 4 pts
3-letter words
24 words2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
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