Both Uses of
eccentric
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.†
Chpt Pref.
- He knew her so well that no eccentricity of behaviour in her would alarm him.†
Chpt 43-45 *
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits