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obliquity

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

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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