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obliquity


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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