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Meanings of preconceived opinion 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.
3
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.
3
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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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?
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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.
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We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system.
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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.
Usage of preconceived opinion in English
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.
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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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The visit, however, only served to strengthen Lord Canning in his preconceived opinion that Peshawar must be held on to as our frontier station.
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He became suspicious that a preconceived opinion was being defended at the expense of honest scrutiny, and was thus driven upon his own unaided investigation.
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It is a golden rule, which I try to follow, to put every fact which is opposed to one's preconceived opinion in the strongest light.
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Each investigation is the outcome of a definite question, a " preconceived opinion," which is either supported by the facts or must be abandoned.
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But he was misled by a preconceived opinion, and failed to understand that ill-will is not to be vanquished by time nor propitiated by favours.
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It pleases me particularly to associate the two words 'penseur' and 'militaire,' which, at the present time, the ignorance of preconceived opinion too frequently separates.
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Prejudices, preconceived opinions and beliefs always stand in the way of true wisdom.
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She had never thought much about Him, and had no strong preconceived opinions.
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Hence, we must discard all preconceived opinions which conflict with facts.
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Its originality was startling, upsetting my preconceived opinions of God, man, and creation.
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To belong to a school is necessarily to espouse its prejudices and preconceived opinions.
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