inobservance
noun
lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness.
inobservant
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a word derived from
inobservance.
Example Sentences
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This might, by an inobservant reader, be confounded with the summons to the convocation, which is composed of the same constituent parts, and, by modern usage, is made to assemble on the same day.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Of all this she appeared by no means inobservant, nor did it seem to displease her.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The artist evidently moves in constraint, and the accessories of these domestic scenes are simply generalized as if by a child: the result of an inobservant eye for such things.”
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Our eyes and ears grow quickened to discern in the child before us processes similar to those we have read of as noted in the children,—processes of which we might otherwise have remained inobservant.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
That I may not be thought inobservant, forty-five yards a second is a pace which embarrasses sight.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
