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adjective

Aberrant adj.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

(Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. "The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aberrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... approaches the nature of a monstrosity can strive thus forcibly to reproduce itself, it is not wonderful that less aberrant modifications should tend to be preserved even more strongly; and the history of the Ancon sheep is, in this respect, particularly instructive. With the "'cuteness" characteristic of their nation, the neighbours of the Massachusetts farmer imagined it would be an excellent thing ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... the whole. It is the antagonism of the soul with God. But the perpetual preservation of a perfectly balanced antagonism with God is inconceivable. It must vary, totter, grow either worse or better. If it grows worse, it will finally destroy itself, the aberrant individuality or malign insurgence vanishing in the totality of force, as the filth of our sewers vanishes purely in the purity of the ocean. If it grows better, its improvement will finally transform the opposition into reconciliation, the evil disappearing ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger