Observance

//əbˈzɝvəns//

"Observance" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

She was a girl of imposing appearance and winning manners. But this staggered him. If she were such a slave to fashion and observance, she was not the woman for his wife.

It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance.

In the U.S., Veterans Day was originally called “Armistice Day,” to commemorate the end of World War I, but Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance.

November 11 each year became a national holiday beginning in 1938, with this year's official observance on Monday since the actual date fell on a weekend this year.

And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.

And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.

Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to days.

A turban is a piece of cloth-based headwear worn by people in various cultures, often also serving as a religious observance.

He sees the process as a giant step towards a city-sponsored observance of the winter holidays that's more inclusive of different cultures.

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Thomas Merton was a monk in the Order of Cistertians of the Strict Observance.

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