misobservance
nounEtymology From mis- + observance.
1
An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or doing so wrongly.
- This represents a deliberate misobservance of the rule which permits only one underlying cause to be entered in Part 1.2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the ...:
2
The custom of not celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
- Antonyms
- observance