prepossession

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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

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 Burney, James

This prepossession dominated all professional naval minds in all countries, until the outbreak of the Great War.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

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)