Observances is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBSERVANCES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OBSERVANCE, the keeping of a customary practice, rite, or ceremony, also OBSERVANCY
• an act performed for religious or ceremonial reasons
• a rule to be followed by a religious order
• the practice of observing the requirements of law, morality, or ritual
• the action of watching or noticing something
• respect; deference
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a customary practice, rite, or ceremony; a rule governing members of a religious order

Words related to OBSERVANCES

observance17

Words that contain OBSERVANCES

inobservances20 unobservances20 misobservances23 nonobservances21

How to use OBSERVANCES in a sentence

• Surely the Jews could not exceed this country in their external observances.
• Everybody called it a perfectly splendid party, and Ethel Blue and Dorothy were quite willing to consider it as a part of their own birthday observances.
• He greeted her with a smile and bow, both of which struck her as being singularly affected, for he was not given to polite observances.
• Incorporated minds will always feel some inclination towards exterior acts and ritual observances.
• Numerous other observances, of a religious nature, were varied with the different festivals.
• She kept open house that night, for the old observances were dear to her ever-young heart.
• And even now the Saints of the Calendar are in some places only thinly disguised heathen deities and pagan rites and superstitions mingle with Christian observances.
• Some years later both the young man’s parents died, and in his mourning observances he showed unusual piety.
• The other received a rigid bent toward decorum, in religious observances, in ethical severity, and in literature of a strictly scholastic type.
• The time is approaching, then, when our system of social observances must pass through some crisis, out of which it will come purified and comparatively simple.
• Hence he gradually loses resolution, and lapses, step by step, into the ordinary routine of observances.
• Gradually the grime settles on his faith too, and he loses sight of everything save commercial ends and the observances that orthodoxy demands.
• Dancing was an important part of all religious observances, and was practiced purely as a ceremonial, and never for pleasure or recreation.
• But both divisions are scrupulous about caste observances and the ceremonial purity of their food.
• The reader who is familiar with the religious observances of India is probably aware of the extraordinary regard in which the cup is held by many sects.
• It has been an instinct in nearly all peoples, savage or civilized, to set aside certain days for special ceremonial observances, attended by outward rejoicing.
• Another man, who was hard and cruel in character, but perfectly sound in the orthodox faith and observances, died.
• Absurd, however, as are the observances of the negro, he is a stranger to the bigotry of his moslem neighbours.
• These rigorous observances she must practise for nearly a year.
• The observances of the day, which in a small way may be considered as a rival of Commencement, are at present as follows.
• He certainly set little store by ritual observances and maintained the equal right of laymen with clergymen to preach the gospel.
• I am not at all prepared to say that in the middle and lower ranks of life our countrymen have undergone much change in regard to religious observances.
• Closing the churches would have given warrant to the charge of interference with the observances of religion.
• Of course, each religion, as it formed itself out of the original ancestor-worship, had its own sacred places, functionaries, observances, ceremonial.
• But while the school text-book was extremely simple, ceremonial observances were extremely elaborate.
• There comes a time when observances are felt to be vain and the soul demands knowledge of the essence of things.

Similar words containing OBSERVANCE without suffix s

observance17 inobservance19 unobservance19 inobservances20 misobservance22 nonobservance20 unobservances20 misobservances23 nonobservances21

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