prepossession

Example Sentences

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It was some time before his prepossession allowed him to discover that she was weak and ill-informed, selfish and bad-tempered.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

I may be foolish to do so--the prepossession may be false--the motives for such belief may be slight; but yet that belief is strong.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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

It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours!

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

We must approach the whole subject of split or duplicated personalities with no prepossession against the possibility of any given arrangement or division of the total mass of consciousness which exists within us.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)