prepossession
Example Sentences
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It is far more probable that, approaching his subject with a strong prepossession, he was positively blind to anything that told against his own view.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
That opinion was then, as now, the avowed result of a theoretical prepossession; and this prepossession, as the above quotations sufficiently show, was expressly repudiated by Darwin.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia
He should feel inspired with a strong and awful prepossession in its favor.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
This prepossession dominated all professional naval minds in all countries, until the outbreak of the Great War.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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