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Preterition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of passing by, disregarding, or omitting.

n. Law Neglect of a testator to mention a legal heir in his or her will.

n. Christianity The Calvinist doctrine that God neglected to designate those who would be damned, positively determining only the elect.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting.

n. A rhetorical device in which the speaker emphasizes something by omitting it.

n. The failure of a testator to name a legal heir in his will.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.

n. A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made.” Called also paraleipsis.

n. The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of passing over or by, or the state of being passed over or by.

n. Specifically In Calvinistic theology, the doctrine that God, having elected to everlasting life such as should be saved, passed over the others.

n. In rhetoric, a figure by which a speaker, in pretending to pass over anything, makes a summary mention of it: as, “I will not say he is valiant, he is learned, he is just.” Also pretermission.

n. In law, the passing over by a testator of one of his heirs otherwise entitled to a portion.

n. suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted

Word Usage

"Third, Olson raises this objection in the context of preterition and reprobation (he never uses the term preterition and seems to be unaware of this important distinction)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rhetorical device

Variant

paraleipsis