All 6 Uses of
eccentric
in
Jane Eyre
- When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha! which, when first heard, had thrilled me: I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs; stranger than her laugh.†
Chpt 12
- Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.†
Chpt 13 *
- Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least.†
Chpt 16
- Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least.†
Chpt 16
- I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.†
Chpt 24
- I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits