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Deviate   /dˈiviˌeɪt/   Listen
Deviate

verb
(past & past part. deviated; pres. part. deviating)
1.
Turn aside; turn away from.  Synonym: divert.
2.
Be at variance with; be out of line with.  Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary.
3.
Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course.
noun
1.
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.  Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, pervert.
adjective
1.
Markedly different from an accepted norm.  Synonyms: aberrant, deviant.  "Deviant ideas"






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"Deviate" Quotes from Famous Books



... treatises by a few general observations (in most cases, it is true, rather meagre) on Terms and their varieties, that it will, perhaps, scarcely be required from me, in merely following the common usage, to be as particular in assigning my reasons, as it is usually expected that those should be who deviate from it. ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... actual turn. In the meantime the horse next the plough would be completing the furrow-slice alone, and would, naturally, try to follow the other three horses towards the left, so that the furrow-slice at its end would slightly deviate from the straight line. When the horses were all turned, the second furrow-slice would follow the error in the first, and the same deviation would occur at each end of the ploughing, gradually becoming more and more pronounced, ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

... selling at one price—a custom which has also lasted without interruption, and which has spread to all the great houses. He fixed his price, after careful consideration, at what he thought the goods could and would bring, and would not deviate from it for any haggling, or to suit individual cases. Of course, he followed the fluctuations of the market, and marked his goods up or down in accordance with it; but no difference in the price was made to different people. Perhaps those ...
— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... but I hope they intenerate my heart, and that when I die like my Tetty, this affection will be acknowledged in a happy interview, and that in the mean time I am incited by it to piety. I will, however, not deviate too much from common and ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... propagate doctrines contrary to the Augustan Confession, we considered it necessary to require of them to stand an examination. It is necessary to correct a wrong opinion, which is, that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous. Some ministers have declared that they did not care what the Augustan Confession teaches, that they simply taught the doctrines of the ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente


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