Word Meanings - INOBSERVANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want or neglect of observance. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTEDNESS
  The state of being neglected.
• NEGLECTER
  One who neglects. South.
• NEGLECT
  disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
• NEGLECTINGLY
  Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
• NEGLECTIVE
  Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
• OBSERVANCE
  1. The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties. It is
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• NONOBSERVANCE
  Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
• UNOBSERVANCE
  Want or neglect of observance; inobservance. Whitlock.
• INOBSERVANCE
  Want or neglect of observance. Bacon.