Observance Synonyms and Antonyms

əb-zûrvəns
An act of willingly carrying out the wishes of others
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. compliance
  2. obedience
A custom
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ritual
  2. ceremony
  3. custom
  4. ceremonial
  5. practice
  6. rite
  7. service
  8. attention
  9. liturgy
  10. celebration
  11. office
  12. honoring
  13. form
  14. formality
  15. mark
  16. observation
  17. devotion
  18. regard
  19. tradition
  20. ceremonial occasion
Antonyms:
  1. unorthodoxy
  2. nonobservance
The act of observing a day or an event with ceremonies
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. celebration
  2. commemoration
The act of observing, often for an extended time
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. observation
  2. scrutiny
  3. watch

Words Related to Observance

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Observance Sentence Examples

  • His observance was not only dead-on, it was disturbing.

  • This belief was supported by the Delphic oracle, which was largely instrumental in promoting hero-worship and keeping alive its due observance.

  • Under the auspices of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious he initiated a scheme for federating into one great order, with himself as abbot general, all the monasteries of Charles's empire, and for enforcing throughout a rigid uniformity in observance.

  • In conditional baptism the Latins, since about the year 1227, use the formula, " If thou art not baptized, then do I baptize thee," &c. The Latins further insist on a strict observance of the traditional matter and form.

  • He then removed to Bury St Edmunds, where he acted as lecturer for ten years, retiring when his bishop (Wren) insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles.

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