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Obliquities

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.

  2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.

    To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
    --South.

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obliquities

n. (plural of obliquity English)