prepossession

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We must approach the whole subject of split or duplicated personalities with no prepossession against the possibility of any given arrangement or division of the total mass of consciousness which exists within us.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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

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 gave real pleasure to Ellen, who thought so well of Sir Edward, as to wish he might succeed in rendering the prepossession mutual.

From Mystery and Confidence, Vol. 2 A Tale by Pinchard, Elizabeth

I may be foolish to do so--the prepossession may be false--the motives for such belief may be slight; but yet that belief is strong.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)