Both Uses of
eccentric
in
In Cold Blood
- The Deweys, parents of two young boys, had been married seventeen years, and Marie, a Louisiana-born former F.B.I, stenographer, whom he'd met while he was stationed in New Orleans, sympathized with the hardships of his profession-the eccentric hours, the sudden calls summoning him to distant areas of the state.†
Chpt 2
- She well knew how eccentric he seemed to others; he seemed so to her, for that matter.
Chpt 3 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
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".