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misobservance

noun

Etymology

From mis- + observance.

  1. derived from observantia
  2. derived from observance
  3. prefixed as misobservance — “mis + observance”

Definitions

  1. An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or…

    An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or doing so wrongly.

    • This represents a deliberate misobservance of the rule which permits only one underlying cause to be entered in Part 1.

  2. The custom of not celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misobservance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA