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▪ I. ˈdeviant, ppl. a.
[ad. late L. dēviānt-em, pr. pple. of dēviāre: see deviate ppl. a. and -ant.]
1. Deviating; divergent. spec. Deviating from normal social, etc., standards or behaviour.
c1400Rom. Rose 4789 From youre scole so devyaunt I am. 1623Cockeram, Deuiant, farre out of the way. 1935M. Mead Sex & Temperament xviii. 302 Because it is believed marriage must be based upon contrasting personalities, deviant men often choose deviant women. 1944G. Bateson in J. McV. Hunt Personality & Behavior Disorders II. xxiii. 722 A character structure which is normal among us may be deviant among the Kwakiutl. 1957Observer 3 Nov. 10/5 Even among experimental groups, there is always a certain percentage of deviants who do not conform to standard norms, and in social terms these deviant groups are most necessary. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. x. 314 Elaborate studies of deviant behaviour have been..undertaken which make no attempt to establish the norms from which the subjects are presumed to be deviating.
†2. That diverts or causes to turn aside. Obs. rare.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref. in Ashm. (1652) 121 O deviaunt fro danger, O drawer.
▪ II. deviant, n.|ˈdiːvɪənt|
[f. the ppl. adj.]
a. Something that deviates from normal.
b. = deviate n. 1.
1927Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 5 Feb. 376 Omental bands or deviants, when extensive, are prone to contain a great deal of fibrous tissue. 1928M. Mead Coming of Age in Samoa (1929) xi. 169 These girls all represented the deviants from the pattern in one direction... At any time, they, like all deviants, might come into real conflict with the group. 1950B. Wootton Test. Social Sci. vi. 126 The fact that there are always individual deviants shows that a strong-minded (or weak-willed) individual can substitute purely personal choices of his own for those favoured by the community in which he lives. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iv. 74 Seasoned nonconformists and dissenters, sexual deviants, feather-bedders. 1957[see prec.]. 1959Listener 28 May 947/2 Our attitudes to offenders and other ‘deviants’. |