All 17 Uses
eccentric
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The House of the Spirits
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- Until that day they had never given a name to the eccentricities of their youngest daughter, nor had it ever crossed their minds to ascribe them to satanic influence.†
Chpt 1eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
- She had helped at her birth and was the only one who really understood the child's eccentricities.†
Chpt 1 *
- , although she was a rather eccentric creature not particularly well suited to the duties of marriage and domestic life.†
Chpt 3
- Ferula's affection for her sister-in-law became a passion, a dedication to waiting on her and caring for her and an unlimited tolerance for her distractions and eccentricities.†
Chpt 3eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
- Nicolas inherited the adventurous spirit of his great-uncle Marcos and his mother's propensity for making up astrological charts and reading the future, but this did not constitute a major crime in the rigid code of the school, only an eccentricity, so he fared far better there than his brother.†
Chpt 4eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
- The hot summers at Tres Marias, where she discovered the strength of a love that grew as she did, alternating with the routine of the city, was not unlike that of other girls of her age and class, although Clara's presence added a note of eccentricity to her life.†
Chpt 5
- She undressed her, washed her, meticulously soaping her without missing a single crevice, rubbed her with cologne, dusted her with powder, lovingly brushed her four remaining strands of hair, dressed her in the most eccentric and elegant rags that she could find, and put back her soprano's wig, returning to her in death the infinite attentions that Ferula had given her in life.†
Chpt 5
- I didn't know then that loneliness would never leave me, and that the only person I would ever have close to me the rest of my life would be an eccentric, bohemian granddaughter with green hair like Rosa's.†
Chpt 6
- These were things he discussed in private with his mother; it was impossible to do so with Esteban Trueba, who quickly lost patience and ended up shouting and slamming doors because, as he put it, he was up to here with living among a bunch of lunatics and all he wanted was a little normality, but he had had the misfortune of marrying an eccentric and siring three good-for-nothing crazies who were ruining his life.†
Chpt 7
- He tried to tell himself that his son's eccentricities would disappear with age, and that sooner or later he would become a well-adjusted man who would join him in his business and become his support in his old age.†
Chpt 7eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
- While he washed his hands and showed Nicolas how to wash his too, he tried to distract her with the anecdote about the Spanish ghost that had appeared to Clara during one of the Friday-evening sessions, bringing word of a treasure buried in the foundations of the house; and he told her about his family: a collection of eccentric lunatics for several generations, whom even ghosts made fun of.†
Chpt 7
- Her Grandmother Clara managed to keep that immense covered wagon of a house rolling with its population of eccentrics, even though she had no domestic talent and disdained the basic operations, of arithmetic to the point of forgetting how to add.†
Chpt 9eccentrics = people who are strange or unconventional
- In fact there were times when she would have been delighted to escape her grandmother's clairvoyance, her mother's intuition, and the clamor of all the eccentric people who were constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing in the big house on the corner.†
Chpt 9
- "If you don't die of a snakebite or some foreign plague, I hope you return a man, because I'm fed up with all your eccentricities," his father told him when he said goodbye to him on the pier.†
Chpt 9eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
- She grew accustomed to her grandmother's eccentricities.†
Chpt 9
- Despite these precautions, from the very first day, the headmistress had no trouble discerning the eccentricities of her new pupil.†
Chpt 10
- The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy.†
Chpt Epil.
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) Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".