observance

About 2.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
2. noun The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
3. noun Observation or the act of watching.
4. noun A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.

   Thomas Merton was a monk in the Order of Cistertians of the Strict Observance.

5. noun That which is to be observed.
6. noun Reverence; homage.

Similar words

notice observation watching ceremonial ceremony ceremonial occasion honoring observe observer observing

Often followed by

of and in is by was or to as

Word family

observances