Definition of "inobservance" []

• Lack of heed or attention; disregard. (noun)
• Nonobservance, as of a law or custom. (noun)

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• "No doubt the school she consciously inclines to is that of the parallels; but she has diminished the effect of this inclination by her inobservance of the regulations of realism and determinism, which she has sacrificed for the sake of creating what the other camp may fairly claim is the romantic effect of Miss Bart towering above the other figures."
• "_ Willingly would I: but children are whipped severely for inobservance of things less evident, for disobedience of commands less audible and less awful."
• "Order are not kept; where the same monastery offers two roads: one of virtue and observance, the other of inobservance, and both equally frequented!"