Omitted
[o'mɪt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Omit
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Examples
- The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I will do my best, I said; but I should think that a great deal will have to be omitted. Plato. The Republic.
- Of course he fell in the canal and was nearly drowned; few boys in Milan worth their salt omitted that performance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There is not an unnecessary motion made by any one, and there is not one necessary thing omitted, whatever the cost or trouble. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After that, Mr. Brooke remembered that there was a packet which he had omitted to send off from the Grange, and he bade everybody hurriedly good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their time being limited (no one knew why) they had omitted France. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nothing has been omitted, I hope? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have had no answer, and I very much fear that I must have omitted to put my name at the end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But now that we are determining what classes of subjects are or are not to be spoken of, let us see whether any have been omitted by us. Plato. The Republic.
- She had omitted to make a memorandum beforehand of the day on which she took the journey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Details relating to telegraph systems are omitted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Have I omitted anything, thus far? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I would greatly prefer, officer, Sir Leicester returns stiffly, my Lady's name being entirely omitted from this discussion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You omitted to bid us good-bye, she said. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then assuming that the science now omitted would come into existence if encouraged by the State, let us go on to astronomy, which will be fourth. Plato. The Republic.
- In our study of machines we omitted a factor which in practical cases cannot be ignored, namely, friction. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This state of affairs may be formulated by saying that the older humanism omitted economic and industrial conditions from its purview. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nothing omitted? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Suppose the customary loyal toasts drunk; the King's health, the Queen's with deafening vivats; that of the nation 'omitted,' or even 'rejected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have omitted to mention in its place that there was some one else at the family dinner party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It appears to me, Sophronia, that you have omitted one branch of the subject. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Indignation again prevailed over prudence: I replied sharply, Hitherto I have often omitted to fasten the bolt: I did not think it necessary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The glass may be omitted save in cases where it is an object to have the metal sonorous. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I have omitted to state that I went with the bride to the bride's husband's house and lands down here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- King Henry V Cedric, although not greatly confident in Ulrica's message, omitted not to communicate her promise to the Black Knight and Locksley. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- French goods have never been omitted in any of those general subsidies or duties of five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Omitted to bid you good-bye! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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