misobservance

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ observance.

Noun

misobservance (countable and uncountable, plural misobservances)

  1. An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or doing so wrongly.
    Synonym: malobservance
    • 2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the ...‎[1]:
      This represents a deliberate misobservance of the rule which permits only one underlying cause to be entered in Part 1.
  2. The custom of not celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.

Antonyms

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