Observance

Definition of Observance

Ob`serv´ance

n.	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. - Shak.
	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. - Chaucer. Use all the observance of civility. - Shak. Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances. - Rogers. O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances! - Tennyson.
	3.	Servile attention; sycophancy. Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. - Chapman. This is not atheism, But court observance. - Beau. & Fl. Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws. - Roscommon.

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