Both Uses of
eccentric
in
The Minister's Black Veil
- THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE[1] [1] Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the same eccentricity that is here related of the Reverend Mr. Hooper.†
- ...it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim,
*eccentric = unconventional or strange
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits