prepossession
Example Sentences
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It is far more probable that, approaching his subject with a strong prepossession, he was positively blind to anything that told against his own view.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
But this prominence is also a natural result of the romanticists' prepossession with passion.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
Predilection, prē-di-lek′shun, n. a choosing beforehand: favourable prepossession of mind: partiality.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political.
That opinion was then, as now, the avowed result of a theoretical prepossession; and this prepossession, as the above quotations sufficiently show, was expressly repudiated by Darwin.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
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