Both Uses of
idiosyncrasy
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- CHAPTER XXV THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(idiosyncrasy) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual