prepossession
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He should feel inspired with a strong and awful prepossession in its favor.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
Among the methods of conciliation and prepossession, humour and drollery are particularly mentioned.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
It is organically related to the mystical prepossession of the author's manner of thinking.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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 Charles Bradlaugh
It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours!
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
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