observance

[Ob*serv·ance]

Observance is when you obey a rule or law, or follow a long standing tradition. If your religious observance requires you to fast for several days, you might ask your track coach to let you sit out a race.

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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.

Noun
the act of observing; taking a patient look

Noun
conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

Noun
the act of noticing or paying attention; "he escaped the notice of the police"

Noun
a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
Servile attention; sycophancy.

Observance

Ob*serv"ance , n. [F.observance, L. observantia. See Observant.] 1. 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.

2. 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!

3. Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.]

Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance.

This is not atheism, But court observance.

Syn. -- Observance, Observation. These words are discriminated by the two distinct senses of observe. To observe means (1) to keep strictly; as, to observe a fast day, and hence, observance denotes the keeping or heeding with strictness; (2) to consider attentively, or to remark; and hence, observation denotes either the act of observing, or some remark made as the result thereof. We do not say the observation of Sunday, though the word was formerly so used. The Pharisees were curious in external observances; the astronomers are curious in celestial observations.

Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws.

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.

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Usage Examples

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

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Other Usage Examples

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.