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I knew them by heart, just as I knew others elsewhere in the house, which said things like: THE NORM IS THE WILL OF GOD, and, REPRODUCTION IS THE ONLY HOLY PRODUCTION and, THE DEVIL IS THE FATHER OF DEVIATION, and a number of others about Offences and Blasphemies.†
Chpt 2

deviation = difference
Usually there was only some small thing wrong, but however much or little was wrong it was an Offence, and if it happened among people it was a Blasphemy — at least, that was the technical term, though commonly both kinds were called Deviations.†
Chpt 2
There were people who disapproved of his meticulousness, saying that the local Deviation-rate, which had shown a steady overall improvement and now stood at half what it had been in my grandfather's time, would have been better still, but for my father.†
Chpt 2

deviation = difference
The people of the Fringes — at least, one calls them people, because although they were really Deviations they often looked quite like ordinary human people, if nothing had gone too much wrong with them — these people, then, had very little where they lived in their border country, so they came out into civilized parts to steal grain and livestock and clothes and tools and weapons, too, if they could; and sometimes they carried off children.†
Chpt 2
Only the authorities, ecclesiastical and lay, were in a position to judge whether the next step was a rediscovery, and so, safe to take; or whether it deviated from the true re-ascent, and so was sinful.†
Chpt 4

deviated = differed or changed
Not, I think, because I ever actually classified her in my mind as a Deviation, but it had to be admitted that she did not quite qualify as a true image, so it seemed more tactful to avoid that aspect.†
Chpt 4

deviation = difference
Even among the vegetables there was little deviation; the solonaceae as usual provided most of what there was.†
Chpt 5
In a quiet, ordinary voice he said to me: 'You know, David, concealment of a Blasphemy — not reporting a human deviation — is a very, very serious thing.†
Chpt 5
I tried to explain that a person with a deviation — a small deviation, at any rate — wasn't the monstrosity we had been told.†
Chpt 6
I tried to explain that a person with a deviation — a small deviation, at any rate — wasn't the monstrosity we had been told.†
Chpt 6
They wrestled with the novel idea that a Deviation might not be disgusting and evil — not very successfully.†
Chpt 6
For a moment I thought of trying to get something out of him — casually, of course — about the real nature of the Fringes: after all, as an expert on Deviation he might be expected to know more about them than anyone else.†
Chpt 6
'How long have you known that Sophie deviates?†
Chpt 6 *

deviates = changes or differs
Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human.†
Chpt 6
'You'll find it easier to understand when you are older, but you do know the definition, and you must have realized Sophie deviated.†
Chpt 6

deviated = differed or changed
The Devil sends Deviations among us to weaken us and tempt us away from Purity.†
Chpt 6
There are hundreds of kinds of queer things, and scarcely a normal one among them — it's a kind of jungle of Deviations, going on for miles and miles.†
Chpt 6
Such study as has been possible at a distance, however, does not confirm the view of the Right Wing Church Party that they are the result of unchecked deviation.†
Chpt 6

deviation = difference
That was one of the parts of the journal that got Marther into a lot of trouble with orthodox people, for it implied that deviations, so far from being a curse, were performing, however slowly, a work of reclamation.†
Chpt 6
Mostly they don't have any sense of sin so they don't stop Deviations; and where they do have a sense of sin, they've got it mixed up.†
Chpt 6
Other places, though, you'll find Deviations who think they are normal.†
Chpt 6
You'll find islands where the people are all thickset, and others where they're thin; there are even said to be some islands where both the men and women would be passed as true images if it weren't that some strange deviation has turned them all completely black — though even that's easier to believe than the one about a race of Deviations that has dwindled to two feet high, grown fur and a tail, and taken to living in trees.†
Chpt 6

deviation = difference
You'll find islands where the people are all thickset, and others where they're thin; there are even said to be some islands where both the men and women would be passed as true images if it weren't that some strange deviation has turned them all completely black — though even that's easier to believe than the one about a race of Deviations that has dwindled to two feet high, grown fur and a tail, and taken to living in trees.†
Chpt 6
And when you do go ashore you never know how the local Deviations are going to take you.†
Chpt 6
But what's more worrying is that most of them — whether they have seven fingers, or four arms, or hair all over, or six breasts, or whatever it is that's wrong with them — think that their type is the true pattern of the Old People, and anything different is a Deviation.†
Chpt 6

deviation = difference
At last he took a form from his pouch, and in a slow, deliberate hand wrote that he officially found the child to be a true female human being, free from any detectable form of deviation.†
Chpt 7
So there has been a Deviation; and deviation, any deviation from the true image is blasphemy — no less.†
Chpt 7
So there has been a Deviation; and deviation, any deviation from the true image is blasphemy — no less.†
Chpt 7
So there has been a Deviation; and deviation, any deviation from the true image is blasphemy — no less.†
Chpt 7
I can almost understand that God, made angry, might destroy all living things, or the world itself; but I don't understand this instability, this mess of deviations — it makes no sense.'†
Chpt 8
Not mind about Deviations?†
Chpt 8
I reckon the church people are more or less right about most deviations — only not for the reasons they say.†
Chpt 8
They're right because most deviations aren't any good.†
Chpt 8
Say they did allow a deviation to live like us, what'd be the good of it?†
Chpt 8

deviation = difference
That night, for the first time for years, I had a once-familiar dream, only this time when the knife gleamed high in my father's right hand, the deviation that struggled in his left was not a calf, it was not Sophie, either; it was Petra.†
Chpt 9
There had been a higher deviation rate among the spring-births of the stock — not only our own stock, but everyone's, and particularly among the cattle — than had been known for twenty years.†
Chpt 9
My father reckoned there was a lot less trouble with mutants on account of it, and when there were any, they were burnt, like other deviations.†
Chpt 9
'Isn't that the way to cleanse deviations?' he demanded fiercely.†
Chpt 9
So, because a few wishy-washy minds did not have enough resolution and faith, there were new laws about near-human deviations.†
Chpt 9
Why should the deviation-rate suddenly get high some years?'†
Chpt 9

deviation = difference
Get a bad winter with gales from the south-west, and up goes the deviation-rate — not the next season, but the one after that.†
Chpt 9
In their efforts to score points, each kept a hawk-like watch upon the other's land for the least Deviation or Offence, and both had been known for some time now to reward the informer who would bring news of irregularities in the other's territory.†
Chpt 10
By the end of May there were quite a lot of bets laid that the deviation figures were going to touch a record low.†
Chpt 11
There was, I pointed out, nothing he could pin on us that brought us within any category of the Scheduled Deviations.†
Chpt 11
Usually if a Deviation gets clear of a district they let him go.†
Chpt 12

deviation = difference
The young crop there looked as if it might be oats, but it deviated to an extent which would have caused it to be burnt long ago at home.†
Chpt 13

deviated = differed or changed
I recalled Uncle Axel's tales about places beyond the Black Coasts where the Deviations thought that they were the true image, and anything else was a mutant.†
Chpt 13
But where they can make the stock breed true, they destroy Deviations,' I pointed out.†
Chpt 14
Sure, they can wipe out the obvious deviations, but are you sure that the Old people would recognize any of the present breeds at all?†
Chpt 14
That was when they began to understand how fortunate they had been; they found that even in places where physical deviations don't count for much people who have think-together are usually persecuted.†
Chpt 14

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(1) (deviate as in: deviate from the course)
differ or change
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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