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Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers | Division (II) Intersocial Volition | Section III. Conditional Intersocial Volition |
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773. Nonobservance. |
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NOUN: | NONOBSERVANCE [See Observance]; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches [law], casualness, slackness, laxness, laxity, informality.
lawlessness; disobedience [See Disobedience]; bad faith [See Improbity].
INFRINGEMENT, infraction; violation, transgression; piracy.
RETRACTATION, repudiation, nullification; protest; forfeiture.
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VERB: | EVADE, fail, neglect, omit, elude, give the go-by to [slang], cut [colloq.], set aside, ignore; shut -, close- ones eyes to.
INFRINGE, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and four (or six) through.
DISCARD, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel (wipe off) [See Obliteration].
RETRACT, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from ones word, palter; stretch a point, strain a point.
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ADJECTIVE: | VIOLATING &c. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive, slack, lax, casual, slippery; nonobservant.
unfilfilled &c. (see fulfill [See Observance]).
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