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unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits
- He might with equal probability have been an eccentric landowner or a gentlemanly ploughman.3 — The Rally (23% in)
- The air, afflicted to pallor with the hoary multitudes that infested it, twisted and spun them eccentrically, suggesting an achromatic chaos of things.5 — The Woman Pays (80% in)
There are no more uses of "eccentric" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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