nonobservance

Roget category 773

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.8. Conditional intersocial volition
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#773. Nonobservance

noun

nonobservance etc. 772 — evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches [Law], laxity, informality.
infringement, infraction — violation, transgression — piracy.
retraction, retractation^†, repudiation, nullification — protest — forfeiture.
lawlessness — disobedience etc. 742 — bad faith etc. 940.

verb

fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore — shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.
infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through.
discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void — cancel etc. (wipe off) 552.
retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter — stretch a point, strain a point.

adjective

violating etc. v. — lawless, transgressive — elusive, evasive.
unfulfilled etc. (fulfill) etc. 772.

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