prepossession

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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

Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia

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)

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)

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