What's the difference between preterit and pretermit?

Preterit


Definition:

  • (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
  • (a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
  • (n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A research on the acquisition of morphemes of plural, diminutive, augmentative, gerund, imperfect, and preterite with 109 Spanish children from 3 to 6 is reported.

Pretermit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While it is becoming increasingly clear that this phenomenon may have functional significance in animal models of Parkinson's Disease, its potential importance in the clinical syndrome has been pretermitted.

Words possibly related to "preterit"

Words possibly related to "pretermit"