prepossession
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It is organically related to the mystical prepossession of the author's manner of thinking.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
Such remarks shew the strong prepossession which existed in favour of the Buccaneers, and an eagerness undistinguishing and determined after the extraordinary.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
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
And his strong and awful prepossession in favor of the Bible led him, first of all, to go to the book.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The countenance and appearance of Chapelle Marteau confirmed any prepossession in his favour.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Vocabulary lists containing prepossession
"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Society and Solitude
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