Definition of "obliquities" [obliquities]

• Plural form of obliquity. (noun)

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• "He wrote: "education generates habits of application, of order, and the love of virtue; and controls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization.""
• "But before I can come to treat of these several errors and obliquities, their causes, symptoms, affections, &c.,"
• "Many errors and obliquities are on both sides, noble, ignoble, factis, natis; yet still in all callings, as some degenerate, some are well deserving, and most worthy of their honours."