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Webster 1913 Edition

Obliquity

Ob-liq′ui-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Obliquities
(#)
.
[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
.
South.

Webster 1828 Edition

Obliquity

OBLIQ'UITY

,
Noun.
[L. obliquitas.]
1.
Deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; as the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.
2.
Deviation from moral rectitude.
To disobey God or oppose his will in any thing imports a moral obliquity.
3.
Irregularity; deviation from ordinary rules.

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