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Obliquity

Obliquity Meaning & Definition
Obliquity Definition And Meaning

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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