Word Finder - omission

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The act of omitting.

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The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.

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Something deleted or left out.

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The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.

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Something not done or neglected.

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(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

His regard for the young nobleman' last named dictated the omission in the later editions of his Moral Sentiments of the name of the celebrated ancestor of the duke, whom he had associated with Mandeville as author of one of the "licentious systems" reviewed in the seventh part of that work.

This omission is sometimes believed to be an error.

To correct that omission we provide the details here - see below.

The principal difference from the manner described of making black tea lies in the omission of the withering and fermenting, and the substitution for those of a steaming or panning process.

It can still be pretty clearly shown in detail that these four codices deviated from one another in points of orthography, in the insertion or omission of a wa (" and ") and such-like minutiae; but these variations nowhere affect the sense.

A notable omission in this analysis is the Abacus system widely used in the Asia Pacific region.

Leave public assistance quot agent error insurance life omission predicting the insurance coverage for.

To the same general attitude is also due the omission by Livy of all that has no direct bearing on the fortunes of the Roman people.

It must not mislead by distortion, undue emphasis or omission.

Giving the taxpayer an opportunity to rectify an omission in such cases is a means of enhancing voluntary compliance.

It regrets this omission and offers a belated unqualified apology to her for the action it took.

We shall do our best to remedy this omission.

In the omission theory, the question about what inferences are made " during reading " is beside the point. /para para para 6.4.

Or does the scribe mean nothing by his/her addition or omission of the full stop?

The sin is a sin of omission; every man is bound to do what he can to save his neighbor from imminent destruction.

A minor omission is the vertical stanchion at the location of the joint between the two hull pieces, aft.

But there is no diesel, a surprising omission in a car of this class.

But it remains a grave omission.

The Czech (Cech) alphabet is the same as the English, with the omission of the letters q, w and x.

Fresh doubts arose as to the effect of this omission; and a correspondence on the subject took place between the British government and the government of the republic before the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, the former maintaining that the preamble of 1881, by which alone any self government was granted, was still in force, and therefore that the suzerainty - whatever it involved - remained; the Transvaal government, on the other hand, contending that the suzerainty had been abolished by the substitution of the 1884 convention for that of 1881.

But the definite description of Gargantua in the title as "Pere de Pantagruel," the omission of the words "second livre" in the title of the first book of Pantagruel while the second and third are duly entitled "tiers" and "quart," the remarkable fact that one of the most important personages, Friar John, is absent from book ii., the first of Pantagruel, though he appears in book i.

Both in this work and in the Gesta pontificum the later recensions are remarkable for the omission of certain passages which might give offence to those in high places.

The annexation of Oudh, which was the chief recruiting ground of the Bengal army, probably caused wider disaffection in the ranks of that army than any other act or omission of the government.

The attempt (by Clemen and Beer) to place the TenWeeks Apocalypse before 167, because it makes no reference to the Maccabees, is not successful; for where the history of mankind from Adam to the final judgment is despatched in sixteen verses, such an omission need cause little embarrassment, and still less if the author is the determined foe of the Maccabees, whom he would probably have stigmatized as apostates, if he had mentioned them at all, just as he similarly brands all the Sadducean priesthood that preceded them to the time of the captivity.

The multiplication or division here involves the omission of the unit " boy," and the operation is incomplete.

Early in 1858 the House of Commons, by an increased majority, passed a bill amending the oaths imposed by law on members of both Houses, and directing the omission of the words on the true faith of a Christian from the oath of abjuration when it was taken by a Jew.

William thought the omission accidental, but this is hardly possible.

On the 5th of March the Congregation of the Index issued a decree reiterating, with the omission of the word "heretical," the censure of the theologians, suspending, usque corrigatur, the great work of Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, and absolutely prohibiting a treatise by a Carmelite monk named Foscarini, which treated the same subject from a theological point of view.

For four years he ruled without a budget, taking advantage of an omission in the constitution which did not specify what was to happen in case the crown and the two Houses could not agree on a budget.

Their most original feature was the omission of a religious test for citizenship, though a precedent for this is to be found in the Plymouth Colony; on the other hand, the union of church and state was presumed in the preamble, and in 1659 a property qualification (the possession of an estate of X30) for suffrage was imposed by the general court.

The omission of a specific scheme to address generalized blight constitutes a major flaw in the proposed compensation package.

It also gives the lie to the notion that state collusion takes place only on the basis of omission.

Critics have blamed its omission on a " cultural cringe " about Scots.

No re-publication, refund or adjustment will be made where the error, misprint or omission does not materially detract from the advertisement.

Any omission will make the application devoid of legal effect.

The main fear was that the Bill would legalize euthanasia by omission.

There is also a rather glaring omission from the reference cards that would have assisted greatly in learning the game â a turn summary.

Will we act to eliminate hunger or will we forsake our credibility through omission?

The Frames don't seem to tour England anymore - why the glaring omission?

One surprising omission is the lack of any mention of triple superphosphate.

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To my mind this omission is pointless and the new sentence seems curiously unbalanced and incomplete.

The locality described by Diodorus after Cleitarchus corresponds in important particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the ' This statement is not made in Ctesias (or rather in the extracts of Photius) about Darius II., which is probably accidental; in the case of Sogdianus, who as a usurper was not deemed worthy of honourable burial, there is a good reason for the omission.

This omission is sometimes held to be an error, but as a fact it is an advantage.

But even after the omission of all cometary objects we can still count in the solar system upwards of five hundred bodies, almost every one of which pronounces distinctly, though with varying emphasis, in favour of the nebular theory.

Writers with none of the prejudices of the historical school, but with the cold and remorseless regard for logic of the purely objective critic, have pointed out serious inconsistencies here, the omission of important factors there, until very little of the " old Political Economy " is left unscathed.

In spite of his services, Lenthall was not included by Cromwell in his new House of Lords, and was much disappointed and crestfallen at his omission.

The resistance of the air is reduced considerably in modern projectiles by giving them a greater length and a sharper point, and by the omission of projecting studs, a factor called the coefficient of shape, being introduced to allow for this change.

It was corrupted to abilior by omission of the h and confusion of t and 1, and this corruption, which is attested by the oldest extant copy, the Ambrosian palimpsest, was still further corrupted in the other copies to agilior.

Under this head we may class errors which arise from the omission or the insertion of such marks as the apostrophe and the hyphen.