obliquation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OBLIQUA'TION, noun [Latin obliquo, from obliquus, oblique.] 1. Declination from a strait line or course; a turning to one side; as the obliquation of the eyes. 2. Deviation from moral rectitude.
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