About The Word Obliquity
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Obliquity
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What's The Definition Of Obliquity?
[n] the quality of being deceptive
[n] the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle Synonyms | Synonyms for Obliquity: asynclitism | deceptiveness Related Terms | Find terms related to Obliquity: See Also | abnormal condition | abnormalcy | abnormality | childbed | confinement | dishonesty | labor | labour | lying-in | meretriciousness | parturiency | speciousness | travail Obliquity In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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