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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention to, knowledge of something |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, acquittal, acquittance, adherence, awareness, carrying out, celebration, cognizance, compliance, discharge, fidelity, fulfillment, heed, heeding, honoring, keeping, mark, mind, note, notice, obedience, observation, performance, regard, remark, satisfaction |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, heedlessness, neglect, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery; dispensation |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, acquittance, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, floater, freedom, freeing, let-off, liberation, liberty, lifeboat, lifesaver, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, walkout |
| Antonyms: | check, collection, gathering, hold |
| Main Entry: | quietus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | acquittance, decease, discharge, dissolution, end, extinction, release, repose |
| Main Entry: | exculpation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearing from accusation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, acquittance, excuse, exoneration, vindication |
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| Main Entry: | observance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | exculpation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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acquitted, conciliated, conciliatory, drawing the nail, forgiving, placable, unavenged, unchastised, uncondemned, unpunished, unresented, unrevenged
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| Concept: | Observance. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal., adhesion, acknowledgement; fidelity (probity); exact - observance.
-verbs
observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office., perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge; keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.
-adjectives
observant, faithful, true, loyal; honorable; true as the dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole; punctual, punctilious; literal (exact); as good as one's word.
-adverbs
faithfully
-phrases
ignoscito soepe alteri nunquam tibi; tempori parendum; "to God, thy country, and thy friend be true" [Vaughan].
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| Antonyms: | nonobservance |
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