nonobservance

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English non-observaunce, nonn observance, equivalent to non (“no”, adjective) + observance.

The stamp of publicity had of course been fully given by her confinement and departure, and the change itself was now ushered in by our nonobservance of the regular custom of the schoolroom. — The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The historians tell us with naïve assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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