Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with
observance.
Chapman.
This is not atheism, But court observance.
Beau. & Fl.
Syn. -- Observance, Observation. These words are discriminated by the
two distinct senses of observe. To observe means (1) to keep strictly;
as, to observe a fast day, and hence, observance denotes the keeping or
heeding with strictness; (2) to consider attentively, or to remark; and
hence, observation denotes either the act of observing, or some remark
made as the result thereof. We do not say the observation of Sunday,
though the word was formerly so used. The Pharisees were curious in
external observances; the astronomers are curious in celestial
observations.
Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws.
Roscommon.