Noun, : the formalities of judicial process. ,the formality of a thank-you note.    From Dictionary.com. 

But times have changed and the simplification of business formalities is now under way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - August 2001] Reference

Kahle (certain formalities) and Golan (URAA restoration) (where a new ruling was just issued).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

While awaiting the settlement of certain formalities he took apartments at Brown's Hotel, and it was here he was arrested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrations of the War in America] Reference

The film had completed dubbing formalities recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

One of the formalities was the presentation of the left eye to the King, which however he did not receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1] Reference

I've just never understood how all of the formalities are accomplished through the chaos of the crossings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Crossing Procedures for non-US citizens] Reference

And you didn't have a serious point about my observance of Constitutional formalities, which is why I didn't deem it worthy of response.    From Wordnik.com.  ["What else are we supposed to do?"] Reference

There is no need of faxing documents or undertaking any lengthy formalities, which is also one factor in the quick approval of the loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

The simple "formalities" droned on week upon week, until the weeks turned into months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quozl]

In the terminology of copyright lawyers, in the '09 Act you had "formalities" to get copyright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

Why should Susy not let every one know that she meant to marry Strefford as soon as the "formalities" were fulfilled?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glimpses of the Moon] Reference

"formalities" approach was far better than the present system under the 1976 act, as subsequently amended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

'76, but perhaps the problem was with the specifics of the "formalities" rather than with the concept itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

A family friend once encouraged Ford to drop the formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path To Power] Reference

This, the decisive engagement, opened with polite formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Skip the formalities, he said, you'll have time for that later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man On The Run] Reference

"There are a few formalities which our guests have to go through.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

She scarcely knew how she went through the formalities of getting away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Stanley was not made for the formalities of what is called high-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

When the formalities were over, a dead silence prevailed for some minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Phyllis caught glimpses of the formalities incident to securing a license.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference

There are various formalities to be gone through, in connection with Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

At twelve o'clock, the preliminary formalities having been complied with, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

Chaplaine in his formalities says: 'He put his hands on them and he healed them.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

He was conducted blindfolded to General Gates and with him arranged the formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

It will be as the lives of the Romans in Greece -- a bacchanale of peculiar formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference

There's interviews, usually, but I'vegot a staffing crisis so we can do the formalities later.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Mitchell Muggins Here] Reference

But the tiresome formalities were not yet over: he had to invite the three officials to breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I refused and told them they should show me their ID cards and go through proper legal formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Not an Isolated Incident’] Reference

Credit between family members requires the formalities of a bank loan, but the rate can be more favorable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Ways To Freeze Out Uncle Sam] Reference

This amount, deposited on entering the country, will be refunded upon leaving and complying with the formalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Prussians aided in winning, -- the declarations of war, we say, were mere formalities, and as such they were regarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

You agree to thirty-seven prescribed articles, and go through sundry formalities and take to the road with your automobile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Frequently catering to an illiterate clientele, jewelers often barter old gold for new, dispensing with the formalities of a paper trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Knot] Reference

"It was a time of changing attitudes towards pupil behaviour and a loosening of the formalities between teachers and pupils," White says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does skills-based learning face a lean future?] Reference