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observance
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  • At Mark Keppel High School there was an annual observance: the battle between the Mexicans and Anglos.†  (source)
  • Nor would it have been impracticable, in the observance of majestic ceremonies, to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity, and give, as it were, a grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on.†  (source)
  • What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.†  (source)
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  • This was an observance the authorities considered mandatory.†  (source)
  • Religious observances shouldn't be denied to anyone.†  (source)
  • 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)
    standard 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.
  • They waited for her to rejoice in kind, on cue, with due observance of the protocols.†  (source)
  • Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances, which he supposed a regular part of the business.†  (source)
  • The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on.†  (source)
  • TYRONE It's true I'm a bad Catholic in the observance, God forgive me.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Good Friday observance means that its citizens are temporarily done celebrating the war's end.†  (source)
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