obliquity
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Du moyen français obliquité, issu du latin obliquitas, dérivé de obliquus (« oblique »).
Nom commun
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obliquity
- (Depuis le XVe siècle) Obliquité, inclinaison d’une ligne, d’une surface sur une autre.
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
— (John Milton, Paradise Lost, lignes 766-769, 1667)She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.
— (Henry James, What Maisie Knew, 1897)
- (Depuis le XVe siècle) Obliquité, ce qu’il y a de contraire à la droiture, à la franchise dans sa conduite, dans ses démarches, dans ses comportements.
Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a "fiddlers'-green," his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability.
— (Herman Melville, Billy Budd, chapitre 2, 1924)Stray’s [friends], apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.
— (Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 404, 2006)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.
— (Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, chapitre 25, 1879)
Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- (Royaume-Uni) : \əˈblɪkwɪti\
- (États-Unis) : \əˈblɪkwɪɾi\, \oʊˈblɪkwɪɾi\
- Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre) : écouter « obliquity [Prononciation ?] »
Références
[modifier le wikicode]- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : obliquity. (liste des auteurs et autrices)