20 Metaphors for omissions

Even the deliberate omission of a commemoration in Lauds or Vespers is not a violation of a grave precept.

'DEAR MADAM, 'You may perhaps think me negligent that I have not written to you again[800] upon the loss of your brother; but condolences and consolations are such common and such useless things, that the omission of them is no great crime: and my own diseases occupy my mind, and engage my care.

These theologians hold that the wilful omission of an entire small hour or equivalent matter (e.g., Sext, or the third nocturn of Matins) is an omission of a notable part and cannot be excused from grave sin.

Her omission was not design; it was juvenile indiscretion.

The omissions and the repetitions 'betray,' he says, 'the writer's agitation.'

The omission of a chancel arch is a step towards the ideal simplicity of the late Perpendicular churches (e.g., St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich), running from east to west without break, but the large rood piers and reduced width and height of chancel make the pause demanded in so long a church.

His omission was natural delicacy, in keeping with your own attitude.

The most notable omissions are Arnolfo and Brunelleschi (but these are, as we have seen, on the façade of the Palazzo de' Canonici, opposite the south side of the cathedral), Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, and Savonarola.

The omission of the recital of the Divine Office by a beneficed person is a grave sin against the virtue of religion and a grave sin against the virtue of justice.

"The omission of a word necessary to grammatical propriety, is of course an impropriety, and not a true ellipsis.

Other theologians holdand their opinion is the more common and the more probable onethat, although one psalm is a notable part of a small hour, in relation to the whole office it is not a notable part, and its omission is not a grave matter.

But the almost total omission of the ancient and beautiful Sunday Masses was a misfortune and, in a sense, an unbecoming practice, which broke away from ancient liturgical rule and tradition.

To our ear it is quite out of the question; and, moreover, we affirm that in dissyllabic (which we, for want of a better name, call iambic and trochaic) measures the omission of a half-foot is an impossibility, and all the more so when, as in this case, the preceding syllable is strongly accented.

That was the year we omitted Newport and Saratoga, for a wonder," he added, conveying the idea, in a look to Mr. Chiffield, that such an omission was a marvel in their annual experiences.

It will be seen further on how this scarcely credible omission was a main factor in deciding their fate.

The omission of such declaration is therefore an additional proof that it was not intended that the grant should be so construed.

This Pope expressly states that wilful omission of the Divine Office is a grave sin"grave peccatum intelligat se commissise.

But that worthy man and excellent poet, George Dyer, made me a visit yesternight on purpose to borrow one, supposing, rationally enough, I must say, that you had made me a present of one before this; the omission of which I take to have proceeded only from negligence: but it is a fault.

"No one, we think, will be rash enough to maintain, either that this omission is the result of mere accident, or that no individual slave or freedman was ever buried in the catacombs.

The principal omission is the order for having three days' provisions ready-dressed, and that all who do not appear at their posts upon the signal are to be deemed cowards, and prosecuted as such." Head-Quarters, August 14, 1776.

20 Metaphors for  omissions