The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
A departure from the correct way of acting.
The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture.
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
mankind’s deviation from divine will
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
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