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Meanings of preconceived notion in English
An opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.
Synonyms
Examples for "preconception"
Examples for "preconception"
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These findings have significant implications on planning and implementation of preconception care.
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But the preconception that women aren't funny clearly predates mainstream panel shows.
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Of such a tragedy as this they had had no remotest preconception.
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This is another preconception of civilization, exceedingly difficult to get rid of.
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There is a need for more high-level research in evaluating certain preconception interventions.
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No social interest, no personal prepossession, has attracted them to my work.'
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Upon this occasion national prejudice heightened the prepossession which circumstances had raised.
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The queer thing is that I've got the same prepossession as you.
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Let us then, if possible, raise ourselves above these clouds of prepossession!
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As to people, you are less easily converted from the original prejudice-orprepossession.
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So I cannot be said to be in the least bit parti pris.
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C'est un parti pris, every one understands but only not he.
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And they must attempt to be fair to all comers and not succumb to prejudice or parti pris.
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C'est un parti pris.
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I had never encountered such a violent parti pris of seclusion; it was more than keeping quiet-itwas like hunted creatures feigning death.
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New means of testing preconceived opinion are theirs, and they are using them.
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Both good language and good sense-apartfrom all preconceived opinion-wouldsay that it has.
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She was amusingly conscious of her victory over his contempt of a woman-clerk and his preconceived opinion of her unpractical eccentricity.
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The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion.)
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Reform, contrary to the preconceived opinion of many, is not made of icicles, nor answers with a stone a request for bread.
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Plainly, to add emphasis to their preconceived idea of an endless hell.
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The question is, had she any preconceived idea of such a march?
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He had no preconceived idea for example of how a letter was written.
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You understand that nothing is more disturbing than the upsetting of a preconceived idea.
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We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system.
Usage of preconceived notion in English
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He said he had entered the world with too favourable a preconceived notion.
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That's the thing... back to Letterman, they have this preconceived notion.
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I had a preconceived notion of China as a country of factories and farms.
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Only the preconceived notion of breath-control leads to this inference.
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A few weeks on the force had changed many a preconceived notion of police life.
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Their mood has overwhelmed every preconceived notion of mine.
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HER attitude was one to excite pity rather than terror, in eyes not blinded by a preconceived notion.
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The illusions are greatest especially when a thing has been tasted with a preconceived notion of its taste.
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I had a preconceived notion that the sex would be crazy, but he was so tender and loving.
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With the preconceived notion that hens should have a nitrogenous diet an experiment was planned and conducted as follows:
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But the bewildered Bok could not make out exactly what had happened to his preconceived notion about symphonic music.
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Nor can any preconceived notion of the attractiveness of St. Claude, however high, be disappointed, if visited in fine weather.
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We have not supplied what it craved but that which, from our preconceived notion, we thought it ought to want.
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It was really battling my own preconceived notion I had of what it meant to be Black in this space.
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A true scientific attitude, however, is nothing more than perfect clearness, and therefore the complete separation of our thinking from any preconceived notion.
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Mrs. Bok, however, ably seconded Josef Hofmann, and endeavored to dissipate Bok's preconceived notion, with the result that Stokowksi came to the Bok home.
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