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- noun Plural form of
obliquity .
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Examples
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization."
Michael Roth: "Preach a Crusade Against Ignorance" -- Don't Sacrifice the Future! Michael Roth 2011
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Many errors and obliquities are on both sides, noble, ignoble, factis, natis; yet still in all callings, as some degenerate, some are well deserving, and most worthy of their honours.
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Assuredly there ought to be little condonation of the foibles, and none at all of the moral obliquities, of the dead, because this would mean the demoralization of the living.
Voltaire 2007
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But before I can come to treat of these several errors and obliquities, their causes, symptoms, affections, &c.,
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Worthy views want not such obliquities as these on either side.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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