Meaning of OBLIQUITY
| Pronunciation: | | u'blikwitee
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- [n] the quality of being deceptive
- [n] the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
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| | Synonyms: | | asynclitism, deceptiveness |
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| | See Also: | | abnormal condition, abnormalcy, abnormality, childbed, confinement, dishonesty, labor, labour, lying-in, meretriciousness, parturiency, speciousness, travail | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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