English

malobservance

From mal- + observance.

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Latin observantia

Old French observance

Today it means

noun Synonym of misobservance (“complying wrongly”).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / malobservance