Eccentricities
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Definition
(pl. ) of Eccentricity
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Examples
- Eccentricities of genius, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Emanuel's crotchets and eccentricities! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We astonished them with such eccentricities of dress as we could muster. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Pesca was one of her especial favourites and his wildest eccentricities were always pardonable in her eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It seems at times as if our capacity for appreciating originality were absorbed in the trivial eccentricities of fads and fashions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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