Obliquity

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation
        from moral rectitude.
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              To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
                                                    --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]