1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 419. The two first require the more serious inquiry into, for the universality of their Power (and yet generall unobservance of it).
1681. J. Kettlewell, Meas. Chr. Obed., II. iv. 166. The Law … against irreverence, against unobservance, against disobedience.
1788. D. Gilson, Serm. Pract. Subj., xiii. 381. We are awakened … to lament our own unobservance and ingratitude.
1844. Southey, Life A. Bell, I. 182. The various instances of neglect … on the part of the schoolmaster and ushers, and their unobservance of those rules [etc.].
1893. F. F. Moore, Gray Eye or So, I. 180. Nodding himself into a condition of unobservance.
