All 3 Uses of
eccentric
in
The Age of Innocence
- We must always bear in mind what an eccentric bringing-up Medora Manson gave her.
Chpt 5 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
- As her mother had been a Rushworth, and her last unhappy marriage had linked her to one of the crazy Chiverses, New York looked indulgently on her eccentricities; but when she returned with her little orphaned niece, whose parents had been popular in spite of their regrettable taste for travel, people thought it a pity that the pretty child should be in such hands.†
Chpt 8
- No one in the Mingott set could understand why Amy Sillerton had submitted so tamely to the eccentricities of a husband who filled the house with long-haired men and short-haired women, and, when he travelled, took her to explore tombs in Yucatan instead of going to Paris or Italy.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits