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preterition
[ pret-uh-rish-uhn ]
noun
- the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
- Law. the passing over by a testator of an heir otherwise entitled to a portion.
- Calvinistic Theology. the passing over by God of those not elected to salvation or eternal life.
- Rhetoric. paralipsis.
preterition
/ ˌɛəˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act of passing over or omitting
- Roman law the failure of a testator to name one of his children in his will, thus invalidating it
- (in Calvinist theology) the doctrine that God passed over or left unpredestined those not elected to final salvation
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Origin of preterition1
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of preterition1
C17: from Late Latin ٱپō a passing over
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“For me, I am not comfortable leaving the state,” Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, added in an able display of preterition with reporters on Monday.
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It is, of course, Calvinistic, but in the article on election, there is nothing of either reprobation or preterition.
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