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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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