Usage of "observances"

Russian

праздник

Portuguese

feriados

Catalan

dia festiu

Spanish

día feriado

Festive day set aside by custom or by law.

праздник

Usage of observances in English

The funeral observances in honor of the chief had not yet ceased. 
 Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest 

In many places festivities were held on Saturday because of religious observances. 
 BBC 

Luther was broader; Calvin engrafted on his reforms the Old Testament observances. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor... 

So many major religions involve observances that commemorate suffering in the past. 
 The new yorker 

Surely the Jews could not exceed this country in their external observances. 
 Domestic Manners of the Americans 

There are declarations that are entirely in favour of Acts or observances. 
 The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,... 

They practiced hospitality to strangers, and spent their lives in religious observances. 
 For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem 

All these ceremonial observances can still be studied on the Japanese stage. 
 Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things 

He will perform the prescribed observances, if he cannot approve of them. 
 Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; a... 

The proceedings continued with a bone-dulling litany of ritual observances and purifications. 
 Halo Cryptum 

That is what comes of making religion a round of outward observances. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII 

But she never allowed these amusements to interfere with her religious observances. 
 Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum... 

Therefore religious who are appointed bishops are not bound to religious observances. 
 Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ... 

Of their Philosophical or Religious tenets or observances, no notice or hint. 
 Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh 

Can delicate minds be united to each other but by delicate observances? 
 The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) 

Sacrifice, gift, penances, study, vows, observances,-allthese have destruction for their end. 
 The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13... 