Both Uses of
eccentric
in
Great Expectations
- Mr. Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it.†
Chpt 20 *
- Put the case that, at the same time he held a trust to find a child for an eccentric rich lady to adopt and bring up.†
Chpt 51
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits