Dictionary Entry
preterition
preterition is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
- 2noun
A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
- 3noun
The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
- 4noun
suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
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