[f. ABERRANT, on the type of nouns in -NCE, a. OFr. -nce:—L. -ntia.] The action of straying or diverging from a recognized course; vagary.
1665. Glanville, Sceps. Scient., xvi. This … would alter the crasis of his understanding, and render it as obnoxious to aberrances as now.
1865. W. M. Rossetti, Fine Art (1867), 276. The two remaining contributions … are Japanese subjects, unsurpassed in delicate aberrances and intricate haphazards of colour.
1874. Jones & Siev., Path. Anat., 4. The perversion or aberrance of a natural function.
