All 8 Uses of
eccentric
in
Middlemarch
- Such reasons would have been enough to account for plain dress, quite apart from religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments, only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agitation.†
Chpt 1
- Hence these fair neighbors thought her either proud or eccentric, and sometimes spoke of her to their husbands as "your fine Mrs. Garth."†
Chpt 3 *
- Like the eccentric woman she was, she was at present absorbed in considering what was to be done, and did not fancy that the end could be better achieved by bitter remarks or explosions.†
Chpt 3
- Themselves at least he had never been unnatural enough to banish from his house, and it seemed hardly eccentric that he should have kept away Brother Jonah, Sister Martha, and the rest, who had no shadow of such claims.†
Chpt 3
- "I never noticed any alienation of mind—any aberration of intellect in the late Mr. Featherstone," said Borthrop Trumbull, "but I call this will eccentric.†
Chpt 4
- A man who does that is always charged with eccentricity, inconsistency, and that kind of thing.†
Chpt 4
- "It is impossible to say what will suit eccentric persons," she answered, "but in my opinion Captain Lydgate is a thorough gentleman, and I think you ought not, out of respect to Sir Godwin, to treat him with neglect."†
Chpt 6
- It cannot answer to be eccentric; you should think what will be generally liked," said Rosamond, in a decided little tone of admonition.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits