pretermit

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/(UK)
See all 2 pronunciations
/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/(UK) · /ˌpɹidəɹˈmɪt/(US)

Definition of pretermit

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Latin praetermitto.

Anagrams of pretermit

2 plays · all valid Scrabble

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Words you can make from pretermit

130 playable · top: PERMITTER (13 pts)

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9-letter words

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2-letter words

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