Definition of "nonobservant" [nonobservant]

• Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion. (adjective)

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• "Back when I was beginning my book about Hitler, I was talking about memory and revenge with my friend Gus, then a lawyer, now a judge; like me a secular, liberal, nonobservant, non-Zionist American-born Jew with no immediate family members murdered in the Holocaust."
• "The only problem was that I was Jewish, as my fundamentalist Christian mother had been for most of her life, and I was nonobservant at that."
• "The dispute in Beit Shemesh underscores a widening fault line in Israel between religiously devout and a majority of nonobservant Jews, a dispute often exacerbated by the powerful role of ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israeli governments."