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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Preterition

· Pre·ter·i·tion · IPA
01 n. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
  1. 1.
    The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
  2. 2.
    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.(Rhet.) Also: paraleipsis
  3. 3.
    The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.(Law)