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Answer for the clue "Deviation from the accepted norm ", 10 letters:
aberration

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "a wandering, straying," from Latin aberrationem (nominative aberratio ) "a wandering," noun of action from past participle stem of aberrare "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray," from ab- "away" (see ab- ) + errare "to wander" (see ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An aberration is something that deviates from the normal way. Aberration may refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state. (Late 16 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=4) 2 (context optics English) The convergence to different ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE temporary ▪ He saw the omission as a symptom of a temporary aberration . ▪ Some temporary psychological aberration , perhaps? EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The losses this year are an aberration , and the company ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aberration \Ab`er*ra"tion\, n. [L. aberratio: cf. F. aberration. See Aberrate .] The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. ``The aberration of youth.'' --Hall. ``Aberrations ...

Usage examples of aberration.

An Aberrant whose Aberration made her better than those who despised her.

Q Factor, though high, is not of any such extraordinary highness as to justify an attempt at psychosurgery to correct the aberration, it is therefore recommended that subject be released from the Communipath Creche on her own recognizance after suitable indoctrination erasure.

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

In their aberration they believed it was worth their while to break all the barriers of perception, even if they had to become trees to do that.

And because of the aberration of the Dutch and Belgians for neutrality there had been no staff consultations by which the defenders could pool their plans and resources to the best advantage.

It seems likely that Raeder took this step largely because he wanted to anticipate any sudden aberration of his unpredictable Leader.

This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to - or shared with - so many of his German followers.

The rest I was prepared to dismiss airily as some sort of unfortunate aberration brought about by the exceptional circumstances of the tornado.

For every hundred useless aberrations there may be one that is useful, that provides its bearer an advantage over its kin.

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

For the mind and the passion of Hitler - all the aberrations that possessed his feverish brain - had roots that lay deep in German experience and thought.

Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.

They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.

It was not an undiscovered quirk of Kaf or an aberration from the sinister forces.

Roulet and Grenier the courts referred the whole matter of Lycanthropy, or animal transformation, to its true and legitimate cause, an aberration of the brain.