prepossession

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

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

For its central ideas relate to the remotest ultimates, and its dominant prepossession, the Overman, is, in the final reckoning, the creature of a Utopian fancy.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

Among the methods of conciliation and prepossession, humour and drollery are particularly mentioned.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

They were soon quite at home on the subject of education, and Dr. Halford added no little to the prepossession he had created by listening to her anxieties respecting Freddy's health with courteous interest.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

My own prepossession is still in favor of Alberti.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington