Category:Obliquity

Ob*liq"ui*ty, n.; pl. Obliquities. Etym: [l. obliquitas: cf. F. Obliquité.]

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.