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- adjective Not
observant ; notreligious ; not participating in theobservance ofreligion .
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- adjective failing or refusing to observe religious customs
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Examples
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Back when I was beginning my book about Hitler, I was talking about memory and revenge with my friend Gus, then a lawyer, now a judge; like me a secular, liberal, nonobservant, non-Zionist American-born Jew with no immediate family members murdered in the Holocaust.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The dispute in Beit Shemesh underscores a widening fault line in Israel between religiously devout and a majority of nonobservant Jews, a dispute often exacerbated by the powerful role of ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israeli governments.
WORLD WATCH 2011
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Back when I was beginning my book about Hitler, I was talking about memory and revenge with my friend Gus, then a lawyer, now a judge; like me a secular, liberal, nonobservant, non-Zionist American-born Jew with no immediate family members murdered in the Holocaust.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The only problem was that I was Jewish, as my fundamentalist Christian mother had been for most of her life, and I was nonobservant at that.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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The only problem was that I was Jewish, as my fundamentalist Christian mother had been for most of her life, and I was nonobservant at that.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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How can anyone be so nonobservant as to do something that could have such tragic consequences?
Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids John Kelly 2010
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How can anyone be so nonobservant as to do something that could have such tragic consequences?
Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids John Kelly 2010
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Pilot Philip Ardery noted a dramatic increase in church attendance among previously nonobservant airmen.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Inevitably, as with all my nonobservant dead relatives, we had to rely on rent-a-rabbi.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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Fundamentalist preaching has turned them around very easily, because those nonobservant Muslims do not have the intellectual tools to refute what the fundamentalists say, which is, basically, If you are a true Muslim and you believe what is in the Quran, then start practicing it.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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