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Definition of Pretermitting
1. pretermit [v] - See also: pretermit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretermitting
Literary usage of Pretermitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1888)
"But pretermitting these instances, was it not an acknowledged object of the
convention and the universal expectation of the people, that the regulation of ..."
2. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Cabot Lodge (1888)
"The power of coinage has been so construed by Congress as to levy a tribute
immediately from that source also. But pretermitting these instances, ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"by an able argument presented by members of the bar of the first circuit in behalf
of a practice of mitigating or pretermitting, when deemed necessary, ..."
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