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Aberrance

ABER'RANCE

, [L. aberrans, aberro, to wander from; of ab and ABER'RANCY, erro, to wander.]
A wandering or deviating from the right way, but rarely used in a literal sense. In a figurative sense, a deviation from truth, error, mistake; and in morals, a fault, a deviation from rectitude.

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aberrance

aberrance

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Noun

aberrance (plural aberrances)

  1. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.][1]

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  1. Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 4

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Noun

aberrance f (plural aberrances)

  1. (statistics) Character of what is aberrant.
  2. (uncommon) An aberration or anomaly.