prepossession

Example Sentences

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Such a prepossession of mind must be overcome.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours!

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

It was some time before his prepossession allowed him to discover that she was weak and ill-informed, selfish and bad-tempered.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Only the force of the prepossession of mathematical atomism in analytic logic can account for its failure to do so.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.