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Meanings of prepossession in anglès
An opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.
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Examples for "preconception"
Examples for "preconception"
1
These findings have significant implications on planning and implementation of preconception care.
2
But the preconception that women aren't funny clearly predates mainstream panel shows.
3
Of such a tragedy as this they had had no remotest preconception.
4
This is another preconception of civilization, exceedingly difficult to get rid of.
5
There is a need for more high-level research in evaluating certain preconception interventions.
1
So I cannot be said to be in the least bit parti pris.
2
C'est un parti pris, every one understands but only not he.
3
And they must attempt to be fair to all comers and not succumb to prejudice or parti pris.
4
C'est un parti pris.
5
I had never encountered such a violent parti pris of seclusion; it was more than keeping quiet-itwas like hunted creatures feigning death.
1
New means of testing preconceived opinion are theirs, and they are using them.
2
Both good language and good sense-apartfrom all preconceived opinion-wouldsay that it has.
3
She was amusingly conscious of her victory over his contempt of a woman-clerk and his preconceived opinion of her unpractical eccentricity.
4
The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion.)
5
Reform, contrary to the preconceived opinion of many, is not made of icicles, nor answers with a stone a request for bread.
1
Plainly, to add emphasis to their preconceived idea of an endless hell.
2
The question is, had she any preconceived idea of such a march?
3
He had no preconceived idea for example of how a letter was written.
4
You understand that nothing is more disturbing than the upsetting of a preconceived idea.
5
We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system.
1
He said he had entered the world with too favourable a preconceived notion.
2
That's the thing... back to Letterman, they have this preconceived notion.
3
I had a preconceived notion of China as a country of factories and farms.
4
Only the preconceived notion of breath-control leads to this inference.
5
A few weeks on the force had changed many a preconceived notion of police life.
Usage of prepossession in anglès
1
No social interest, no personal prepossession, has attracted them to my work.'
2
Upon this occasion national prejudice heightened the prepossession which circumstances had raised.
3
The queer thing is that I've got the same prepossession as you.
4
Let us then, if possible, raise ourselves above these clouds of prepossession!
5
As to people, you are less easily converted from the original prejudice-orprepossession.
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She was then pleased to charge me with prepossession and prejudice.
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In the present case, how great was the prepossession against us?
8
This indicates, like a hand on a dial, the stage of her prepossession.
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In similar circumstances Maimonides, it seems, in intervening, yielded a little to personal prepossession.
10
The sovereign is said to have been influenced by the prepossession of the secret.
11
For himself, in the utter prepossession of his passion for Alice, he cared nothing.
12
All this, Clarissa, makes your prepossession in a certain man's favour the more evident.
13
Those persons who are most enlightened, frequently cling on some side to the general prepossession.
14
I am charged with prepossession in another person's favour.
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Oddly enough, on the other hand, there was a prepossession, quite as unreasoning, for Hallock.
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That was the secret of Lord Ormont's prepossession against Aminta's aunt; and who can tell?
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