| Concept: | [Retrospective time.] Preterition. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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-nouns
preterition, the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld., antiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity, paleontology, paleography, paleology; palaetiology, archaeology; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory [more]., laudator temporis acti; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary, antiquarian; archmologist; archaeologist; Oldbuck, Dryasdust., ancestry (paternity).
-verbs
be past; have expired, have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over., look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.
-adjectives
past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete (old)., former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late; ancestral., foregoing; last, latter; recent, overnight; preterperfect, preterpluperfect., looking back; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological
-adverbs
formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time; anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back., yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately (newly)., retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.
-phrases
time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes [Vergil. "We were Trojans" (Latin)]; fruit Ilium [Vergil]; hoc erat in more majorum ["This was in the custom of our ancestors" (Latin)]; "O call back yesterday, bid time return" [Richard II]; tempi passati ["Times past" (Italian)]; "the eternal landscape of the past" [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum ["The last of the Romans" (Latin)]; "what's past is prologue" [Tempest]; "whose yesterdays look
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Antonyms: |
futurity |
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| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
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abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, interstice, interval, lacuna, nihility, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, preterition, pretermission, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, womb |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
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abysm, alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, clough, clove, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, preterition, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn |
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closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
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blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, cutting out, default, disregard, disregardance, elimination, elision, excluding, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack, lacuna, lapse, leaving out, missing, neglect, noninclusion, overlook, overlooking, oversight, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding |
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addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
| Main Entry: | oversight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure, omission |
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blank*, blunder, carelessness, chasm, default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, inattention, lapse, laxity, miscue, mistake, neglect, overlook, overlooking, preterition, pretermission, skip, slip, slipup |
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attention, care, recollection, remembrance, success |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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disbarred, excluded, excluding, exclusive, inadmissible, not included in, unrecounted
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