Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obliqueness; declination from a straight line or course; a turning to one side.
- noun Deviation from moral rectitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity.
- noun rare Deviation from moral rectitude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of becoming
oblique ; a turning to one side;obliquity . - noun
Deviation frommoral rectitude .
Etymologies
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Latin obliquatio, from obliquare to turn obliquely. See oblique.
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Examples
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Cartes_ principles by conceiving the Globuls of the third Element to find less and less resistance against that side of them which is downwards, or by a way, which I have further explicated in the Inquisition about Colours, to be from an obliquation of the pulse of light, whence the under part is continually promoted, and consequently refracted towards the perpendicular, which cuts the Orbs at right angles.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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