prepossess

Example Sentences

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His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was so contrived, that he might gain time to prepossess the Bishop for his purposes.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favour of this journal; but also the circumstance that it—cost him nothing.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

And thus much may be safely inferred, viz. that the desire is, at any rate, to prepossess favourably the person approached.

From The Idea of God in Early Religions by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)

I am not going to prepossess you against even our village scold, by telling her name.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet