observancein a sentence
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What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.† (source)
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By the law of guests I should not question him before he had fed and refreshed himself, but we were past such observances.† (source)
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Religious observances shouldn't be denied to anyone.† (source)
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The most significant of our activities then were the Cinco De Mayo festivities, including our own float in the annual observances, and efforts to raise funds, like holding dances.† (source)
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Also ....I have never attended a Blood-oath Celebration and it is the most important of our observances.† (source)
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He is judged, and if he has done well, observing the rules and restrictions of his caste, paying the proper observances to Heaven, advancing himself intellectually and morally, then this man will be incarnated into a higher caste, eventually achieving godhood itself and coming to dwell here in the City.† (source)
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And, Frau Blumenthal, the truth is that my family was never much for strict observance of the laws and customs anyway.† (source)
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naïvely with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.† (source)
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The stamp of publicity had of course been fully given by her confinement and departure, and the change itself was now ushered in by our nonobservance of the regular custom of the schoolroom.† (source)nonobservance = not obeying; or not taking part in ritualsstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonobservance means not and reverses the meaning of observance. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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The only reason he postponed your arrest was to run this observance in hopes you did something that made his case stronger.† (source)
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This Lincoln, even before he was thirty, warned the young men of Springfield that disrespect for legal observances might destroy free institutions in America, and urged them to let reverence for the laws "become the political religion of the nation."† (source)
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In spite of the complaints of the French as to the nonobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather disgraceful to fight with a cudgel and they wanted to assume a pose en quarte or en tierce according to all the rules, and to make an adroit thrust en prime, and so on—the cudgel of the people's war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic strength, and without consulting anyone's tastes or rules and regardless of anything else, it rose and fell with stupid simplicity, but consistently, and belabored the French till the whole invasion had perished.† (source)
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In Kilanga these are matters of religious observance, they are baptism and communion.† (source)
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There was something about the luxury of the Welland house and the density of the Welland atmosphere, so charged with minute observances and exactions, that always stole into his system like a narcotic.† (source)
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The people of the west moved eastwards to slay their fellow men, and by the law of coincidence thousands of minute causes fitted in and co-ordinated to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg's wrongs, the movement of troops into Prussia—undertaken (as it seemed to Napoleon) only for the purpose of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's inclinations, allurement by the grandeur of the preparations, and the expenditure on those preparations and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the d† (source)
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Fremen mark the observance according to the ninth meridian-crossing cycle of the first moon.† (source)
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