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Failure :: Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise..

Nondelivery :: Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

Crime :: Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law..

Non-feasance :: Non-feasance (n.) An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance..

Pretermission :: Pretermission (n.) The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

Surchargement :: Surcharge (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Nonjoinder :: Nonjoinder (n.) The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined..

Stetted :: Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain..

Omission :: Omission (n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.

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

Nonattendance :: Nonattendance (n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) Omission. See Ellipsis.

Asterisk :: Asterisk (n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Intromission :: Intromission (n.) The act of letting go in; admission.

Apocope :: Apocope (n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word..

Neglect :: Neglect (v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers..

Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc..

Delinquency :: Delinquency (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.

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