pretermissionEtymologyFrom Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.nounOmission; failure to do something.“[T]wentie Kings in a continu'd row, that either did nothing, or liv'd in Ages that wrote nothing, at leaſt a foul pretermiſſion in the Author of this, whether Story or Fable; himſeelf wearie, as ſeems, of his own tedious Tale.”Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis.