prepossession
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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
A prepossession of this kind was an unhappy one, and easily affiliated itself with the spirit of the house, which was markedly a quarrelsome spirit.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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
He ought to have an enthusiastic prepossession in favour of his candidate.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
But this prominence is also a natural result of the romanticists' prepossession with passion.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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