Both Uses
uncanny
in
Jane Eyre
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- What does that inexplicable, that uncanny turn of countenance mean?†
p. 301.3 *
- How long it had been searching me through and through, and over and over, I cannot tell: so keen was it, and yet so cold, I felt for the moment superstitious — as if I were sitting in the room with something uncanny.†
p. 458.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(uncanny) beyond what is natural
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)