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 from moral rectitude.

Etymologies

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Latin obliquatio, from obliquare to turn obliquely. See oblique.

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