Both Uses of
eclectic
in
The Secret Life of Bees
- My mother was a good Catholic—she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
p. 90.4 *eclectic = one who selects a mix of styles or ideas rather than selecting a common set from a single source
- I had no idea what sort of denomination Orthodox Eclectic was, but I nodded like we had a big group of them back in Sylvan.
p. 90.4eclectic = one who prefers to select a distinctive mix of styles or ideas rather than adopting a common set from a single source
Definition:
a distinctive mix of styles or ideas selected from various sources
or:
one who selects a distinctive mix of styles or ideas rather than adopting a common set from a single source
or:
one who selects a distinctive mix of styles or ideas rather than adopting a common set from a single source