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Definition
unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits
- Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.Chapter 13 (26% in)
- 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.Chapter 12 (20% in)
- Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least.Chapter 16 (39% in)
- Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least.Chapter 16 (39% in)
- I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.Chapter 24 (35% in)
- 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.Chapter 28 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "eccentric" in Jane Eyre.
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