observance

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  Tabitha observes
• WordNet 3.6
  • n observance the act of observing; taking a patient look
  • n observance conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
  • n observance the act of noticing or paying attention "he escaped the notice of the police"
  • n observance a formal event performed on a special occasion "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
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OBSERVATION DETERMINING THE POLE

An observation beehive

• Interesting fact: Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks)
• • Observance 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 .""Use all the observance of civility.""Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances .""O I that wasted time to tend upon her,
    To compass her with sweet observances !"
  • Observance Servile attention; sycophancy. "Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get,
    Served with observance .""This is not atheism,
    But court observance .""Love rigid honesty,
    And strict observance of impartial laws."
  • Observance 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 ."
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• Interesting fact: Sharks are capable of surviving on average six weeks without eating. The record observed in an aquarium is fifteen months by a species of shark known as the "swell shark."
• • n observance Attention; perception; heed; observation.
  • n observance Respectful regard or attention; hence, reverence; homage.
  • n observance The act of observing, paying attention to, or following in practice; compliance in practice with the requirements of some law, custom, rule, or injunction; due performance: as, the observance of the sabbath; observance of stipulations; observance of prescribed forms.
  • n observance A custom, rule, or thing to be observed, followed, or kept.
  • n observance A rite or ceremony; an act performed in token of worship, devotion, or respect.
  • n observance Synonyms Observance, Observation. These words start from two different senses of the same root — to pay regard to, and to watch. Observation is watching or notice; observance is keeping, conforming to, or complying with. Observation was formerly used in the sense of observance: as, “the observation of the Sabbath is again commanded” (caption to Ex. xxxi.); “the opinions which he [Milton] has expressed respecting … the observation of the Sabbath might, we think, have caused more just surprise” (Macaulay, Milton); but this use is now obsolescent. It is desirable that the words should be kept distinct.
  • n observance Form, Rite, etc. See ceremony.
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• Interesting fact: To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.
• • ns Observance act of observing or paying attention to: performance: attention: that which is to be observed: rule of practice, a custom to be observed: reverence: homage
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• John Tillotson

  

  “They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”
• Benjamin Disraeli

  

  “Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
• Jonathan Swift

  

  “Observation is an old man's memory.”
• Yogi Berra

  

  “You can see a lot by observing.”
• Yogi Berra

  

  “You can observe a lot by just watching.”
• Virginia Woolf

  

  “On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”

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