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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ob·liq·ui·ty, n.; pl. Obliquities
 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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