Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heedful or obedient regard; observance; obsequiousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Observance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
observance .
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Examples
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It is not easy to speculate that they want their private hunting lodge, err, I mean nature observancy lodge.
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It is not easy to speculate that they want their private hunting lodge, err, I mean nature observancy lodge.
Requiem for Hato Piñero? Ecological mess in the making in Venezuela? 2005
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And yet he would have found it a hard world for one of his strolling meditative observancy.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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A very curious little being; mixture of shrewdness, accurate observancy, flashes of an insight almost genial, with utter simplicity and even folly.
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Once and again his eyes fell upon Mrs. Woolstan with peculiar observancy.
Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880
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Miss Halkett a want of observancy, became attributable to depth of character on its being clear that he had waited for the departure of the transient guests of the house, to pour forth his impressions without holding up his kinsman to public scorn.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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But that which had appeared to Miss Halkett a want of observancy, became attributable to depth of character on its being clear that he had waited for the departure of the transient guests of the house, to pour forth his impressions without holding up his kinsman to public scorn.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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But that which had appeared to Miss Halkett a want of observancy, became attributable to depth of character on its being clear that he had waited for the departure of the transient guests of the house, to pour forth his impressions without holding up his kinsman to public scorn.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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Instead, for some reason they think it would be a good idea for everyone who's not currently observant to form some kind of mass movement based around observing a lack of observancy in order to do battle with those who do.
unknown title 2008
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1- They made their ranch an internationally recognized station for nature observancy, self sustained now but with lots of their own money at first.
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