prepossession
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Men," he says, "are carried by a natural instinct or prepossession to repose faith in their senses.
From Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles
We are apt, under the influence of prepossession or prejudice, to remember certain coincidences better than others, and so to imagine extra-casual coincidence where none exists.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
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.
It is owing to a prepossession that people say that genius must die early; I think that from the thirtieth to the thirty-fourth year has been indicated as the most dangerous period for genius.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
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.
Vocabulary lists containing prepossession
"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Common Sense
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Society and Solitude
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