All 4 Uses of
observance
in
Great Expectations
- Your acceptance of it, and your observance of it as binding, is the only remaining condition that I am charged with, by the person from whom I take my instructions, and for whom I am not otherwise responsible.†
Chpt 18 *
- Of course I felt my good faith involved in the observance of his request.†
Chpt 25
- He had nothing else to do, poor fellow, except at a certain hour of every afternoon to "go to Lloyd's"—in observance of a ceremony of seeing his principal, I think.†
Chpt 34
- The chair that Provis had occupied still remaining where it had Stood,—for he had a barrack way with him of hanging about one spot, in one unsettled manner, and going through one round of observances with his pipe and his negro-head and his jackknife and his pack of cards, and what not, as if it were all put down for him on a slate,—I say his chair remaining where it had stood, Herbert unconsciously took it, but next moment started out of it, pushed it away, and took another.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(observance) conformity with law or custom or practice
or:
taking part in a ritual -- such as celebrating a holiday