prepossession
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And so, when facts come to light which do not chime in with his prepossession, he does his best either to discredit them or to set them down as immoral, heretical or contrary to policy.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
But this prominence is also a natural result of the romanticists' prepossession with passion.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours!
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
The Anthologies of Diabolical Literature may be considered, I trust, without any risk of offence to any theological or philosophical prepossession.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
We are apt, under the influence of prepossession or prejudice, to remember certain coincidences better than others, and so to imagine extra-casual coincidence where none exists.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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