Obliquity

Ob·liq·ui·ty

Obliquity

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.