obliquity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.

   “The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities”

2. isim Axial tilt.
3. isim Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.

   “Whereas Reef's "friends," business and personal, were mostly no strangers to trouble, nor that complicated to understand, Stray's, apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.”

4. isim The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.

   “That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered,—sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.”