deflexion

At other times still, a person would raise a hand or gesture in passing, manoeuvres which would in normal contexts seem innocent, yet combined as they were by those other intrusions I have mentioned, were such a deflexion from everyday comportment that I was quite puzzled as to their meaning.

The Stream and The Torrent 2009

At other times still, a person would raise a hand or gesture in passing, manoeuvres which would in normal contexts seem innocent, yet combined as they were by those other intrusions I have mentioned, were such a deflexion from everyday comportment that I was quite puzzled as to their meaning.

The Stream and The Torrent 2009

Anticipation is but a deflexion or declination by accident.

Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of Nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of generations, productions, and motions; whether they be singularities of place and region, or the strange events of time and chance, or the effects of yet unknown properties, or the instances of exception to general kinds.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Look to sincerity in working, and faith in dependence; God's truth and fidelity will carry him out to give you unconquerable supportment: -- deflexion from these will be your destruction.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

In Azaleas a curious deflexion of the parts of the flower may occasionally be met with.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Winnepeseogee and the Pemigewasset Rivers, and then it turns and runs twenty-five or thirty miles in a northeasterly direction to its mouth; and this deflexion in the current caused the dispute.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various

But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet.

Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900

He took it as distinct that there was nothing he could do in preference that wouldn't be spoiled for him by any deflexion from that point.

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

I see now of course how far, with my complications, I got away from Gyp; but I see to-day so much else too that this particular deflexion from simplicity makes scarce a figure among the others after having once served its purpose, I mean, of lighting my original imitative innocence.

The Awkward Age Henry James 1879