OBSERVANCE in a Sentence

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Furthermore, it is difficult for the participant observer not to exert some influence on the events that are being observed.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBSERVANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
observance
 n.  act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; an act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If, as I am willing to suppose, you wish to shew me any observance, you will not give way to these emotions, but endeavour to reason yourself into a stronger frame of mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  In that house Elizabeth must be first; and she was in the habit of such general observance as "Miss Elliot," that any particularity of attention seemed almost impossible.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  To my surprise it was nothing of any importance at all, but simply a copy of the questions and answers in the singular old observance called the Musgrave Ritual.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
4  Holmes had shaken off his temporary ill-humour, and his characteristic talk, with its keen observance of detail and subtle power of inference held me amused and enthralled.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
5  The observance of these precautions will give an army great confidence, and such confidence leads to victory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
6  Therefore a wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
7  In the school we made a special effort to teach our students the meaning of Christmas, and to give them lessons in its proper observance.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
8  The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual appearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the little church at the gates.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  These were the only traces of luxury, of that clinging to the minute observance of personal seemliness, which showed what her other renunciations must have cost.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
10  This fashion of sacrifice keep thou, thyself and thy comrades, and let thy children abide in this pure observance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
11  The Albans taught it their children; on from them mighty Rome received it and kept the ancestral observance; and now it is called Troy, and the boys the Trojan troop.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
12  Of course I felt my good faith involved in the observance of his request.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
13  Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
14  Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
15  All their other ceremonies and observances depended upon these; because men naturally believed that the God who could forecast their future weal or woe, could also bring them to pass.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
Example Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
16  When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
17  Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed, either by the participant himself or by an outside observer.
18  Furthermore, it is difficult for the participant observer not to exert some influence on the events that are being observed.
19  The patients were observed over a period of several months.
20  You again how boethius observed all still could not return to the origin.
21  The microscope capacitates small objects to be observed.
22  Seven species of birds of prey have been observed.
23  This behaviour is commonly observed among several species of finch.
24  Specific patterns of interaction in the family have been observed.
25  A rightward shift of curves was observed before maximal contraction size was suppressed.
26  In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.'
27  One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
28  A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydrophobia.
29  They observed that, throughout history, experiments in unbridled democracy led to chaos.
30  Plate tectonics is a theory of geology that has been developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the Earth's lithosphere.