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Another word for observance

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observance

n.

A custom
ritual, practice, devotion; see custom 2.
Attention
awareness, observation, notice; see attention 1.

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Another word for observance

noun

An act of willingly carrying out the wishes of others:
compliance, obedience. See resist
The act of observing a day or an event with ceremonies:
celebration, commemoration. See remember
A formal act or set of acts prescribed by ritual:
ceremonial, ceremony, liturgy, office, rite, ritual, service. See ritual
The act of noting, observing, or taking into account:
attention, cognizance, espial, heed, mark, note, notice, observation, regard, remark. See knowledge, see
The act of observing, often for an extended time:
observation, scrutiny, watch. See awareness, see

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His observance was not only dead-on, it was disturbing.
This observance was maintained from James II.'s coronation to that of George III.
Cannibalism seems also to have sometimes been in the nature of a funeral observance, in honour of the deceased, of whom the relatives reverently ate portions.
By the time when Latin literature begins, the genuine Roman religion had already been overlaid by foreign cults and modes of thought, by the classical period it was - except in formal observance - practically buried and to a large extent fossilized.
Nothing is more remarkable than their minute care as to observance of rules of procedure.

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