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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obliquity \Ob*liq"ui*ty\, noun; 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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