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On this account we recommend to omit from the Swedish draft the paragraphs 5, 6, 8, 11, 16, and 19.

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  1. transitive verb To fail to include or mention; leave out: omit a word.
  2. transitive verb To pass over; neglect.
  3. transitive verb To desist or fail in doing; forbear.

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  • One strange similitude Froude did, in deference to outraged susceptibilities, omit, and only the first edition contains a formal comparison of Julius Caesar with Jesus Christ. —  The Life of Froude
  • This book was in the publishers' hands before the appearance of Mrs. Marshall's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , and I have had neither to omit, add to, nor alter anything in this work, in consequence of the publication of hers. —  Mrs. Shelley
  • I have added this entrance which 4tos and 1724 omit, as late in the scene an exit is marked for the page p. 97, l. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
  • And the names of these holy prelates were Lugacius, Columbanus, Meldanus, Lugadius, Cassanus, Ceranus; but to mention the names of the bishoprics we for good reason omit--for in many instances we avoid the names of places and of persons, that we may not, by their uncouth barbarousness, occasion disgust or horror to cultivated ears. —  The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
  • Nor must we omit, as part of the style, the author's own illustrations. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
 

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  1. Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere : ob-, against, away; see ob- + mittere, to send.

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  1. = French omettre = Spanish omitir = Portuguese omittir = Italian omettere, ommettere, from Latin omittere, let go, let fall, lay aside, neglect, pass over, from ob, before, by, + mittere, send: see missile. Cf. amit, admit, commit, permit, etc.
 

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