单词 | omittance |
释义 | omittancen. = omission n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission overleapOE omissiona1440 overskippingc1450 setting bya1592 omittancea1616 elision1812 Passover1822 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 134 I maruell why I answer'd not againe, But that's all one: omittance is no quittance. View more context for this quotation 1850 A. Dumas Black Tulip xv. 114 ‘First of all you should catch them [sc. the pigeons], Master Gryphus.’.. ‘Omittance is no acquittance,’ growled the jailer, ‘and I shall certainly wring their necks.’ 1899 W. Churchill Richard Carvel xliii. 401 I left out the..[part] concerning Mr. Manners... I believe my only motive for this omittance was a reluctance to dwell upon Dorothy. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 39 220 Omittance is no quittance. Looking over the last volume..I have noted several things that I would add,..besides the errata pointed out [in] XXXVIII 342. 1962 P. Groen & G. W. Groves in M. N. Hill Sea xvii. 643 The most severe handicap of this theory..may be the omittance of the bottom stress. 1980 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 45 857/2 Data..was not obtained for the natural mothers of the biological sample—a puzzling omittance. 1991 Statistician 40 22 Omittance of this action will lead to an upward biased average process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1616 |
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