obliquity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

obliquity
    n 1: the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at
         an abnormal angle [syn: {asynclitism}, {obliquity}]
    2: the quality of being deceptive [syn: {deceptiveness},
       {obliquity}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Obliquity \Ob*liq"ui*ty\, n.; 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.
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   2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation
      from moral rectitude.
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            To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
                                                  --South.
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