Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obliquity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Obliquity \Ob*liq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Obliquities}. [L. obliquitas:
cf. F. obliquit['e].]
1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right
line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the
amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of
the ecliptic to the equator.

2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation
from moral rectitude.

To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
--South.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

obliquity
n 1: the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an
abnormal angle [syn: {asynclitism}]
2: the quality of being deceptive [syn: {deceptiveness}]


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