All 8 Uses of
eccentric
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- This episode considerably distracted the attention of the audience; and a goodly number of spectators, among them Robin Poussepain, and all the clerks at their head, gayly applauded this eccentric duet, which the scholar, with his shrill voice, and the mendicant had just improvised in the middle of the prologue.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- The hands and heads of this throng, black against the luminous background, outlined against it a thousand eccentric gestures.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- From a bird's-eye view, these three burgs, the City, the Town, and the University, each presented to the eye an inextricable skein of eccentrically tangled streets.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Lastly, in the intervals of these roofs, of these spires, of these accidents of numberless edifices, which bent and writhed, and jagged in so eccentric a manner the extreme line of the University, one caught a glimpse, here and there, of a great expanse of moss-grown wall, a thick, round tower, a crenellated city gate, shadowing forth the fortress; it was the wall of Philip Augustus.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- The beams, which cut the ceiling in parallel lines, diverted the eye with a thousand eccentric painted and gilded carvings.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- The chimneys of the houses, the battlements of the walls, the faceted gables of the roofs, the spire of the Augustines, the tower of Nesle, all these projections which broke the profile of the colossal obelisk added to the illusion by displaying in eccentric fashion to the eye the indentations of a luxuriant and fantastic sculpture.†
Chpt 2.9.1
- Unhappy as was the Bohemian, this eccentric being still aroused some compassion in her.
Chpt 2.9.3 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
- Its shadowy mass was all furrowed with lights which flitted from window to window; as, when one has just burned paper, there remains a sombre edifice of ashes in which bright sparks run a thousand eccentric courses.†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits -- often in a way that seems interesting or harmless
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".