obliquity
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Noun (2)obliquities
- the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angleSynonyms: asynclitismType of abnormality, abnormalcyPart of parturiency, labor
- the quality of being deceptiveSynonyms: deceptivenessType of dishonestyKinds speciousness, meretriciousness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ob·liq′ui·ty noun; pl. Obliquities (#).
Origin: L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquité.
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.— Robert South
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54