Both Uses of
eccentric
in
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Her eccentricities were no longer provocative and the stupefying ease with which he had gotten and stayed between her legs had changed from the great good fortune he'd considered it, to annoyance at her refusal to make him hustle for it, work for it, do something difficult for it.†
Chpt 4
- She had not recognized it in Pilate, whose equilibrium overshadowed all her eccentricities and who was, in any case, the only person she knew of strong enough to counter Macon.
Chpt 5 *eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits