pretermit

/pɹiːtəˈmɪt/

Etymology

From Latin praetermitto.

pretermit means to intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why this word is great

PRETERMIT — [Verb] To intentionally disregard, overlook, or omit something by a deliberate act of letting it pass. From the Latin praetermittere, from praeter- ("beyond, past") and mittere ("to send, let go"). Unlike "omit," which often denotes a neutral exclusion, or "neglect," which implies careless failure, to pretermit is a conscious, strategic dismissal. It is the editor's cold pencil passing over a heartfelt but irrelevant paragraph, the diplomat's calculated silence in the face of an incendiary remark, the archivist's deliberate bypass of a misfiled document—a quiet testament to the power of selective surrender, where some omissions become the architecture of a bearable life.

verb

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.”