Observance /(?)/
Ob·serv·ance
Observance
n.
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The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.
It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance.
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An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom.
At dances These young folk kept their observances.
Use all the observance of civility.
Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances.
O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances!
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Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.]
Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance.
This is not atheism, But court observance.
Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws.