Usually means: Mentioning by professing to omit.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word preterition:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. preterition: Merriam-Webster
  2. preterition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preterition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preterition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preterition: Vocabulary.com
  6. preterition: Wordnik
  7. preterition: Wiktionary
  8. preterition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. preterition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. preterition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Preterition, preterition: Dictionary.com
  12. Preterition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Preterition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. preterition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. preterition: Rhymezone
  16. preterition: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Preterition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. preterition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. preterition: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. preterition: FreeDictionary.org
  21. preterition: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. preterition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. preterition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. preterition: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preterition)

noun:  The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting.
noun:  (rhetoric) Synonym of paralipsis
noun:  (law) The failure of a testator to name a legal heir in their will.
noun:  (theology) The doctrine that God passes over the non-elect in electing to eternal life those predestinated to salvation.

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