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Meanings of prepossession in English

Catalan
prejudici
Spanish
prejuicio

An opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.

        prejudici
        Usage of prepossession in English
        1
        No social interest, no personal prepossession, has attracted them to my work.'
        Life and Letters of Robert Browning
        2
        Upon this occasion national prejudice heightened the prepossession which circumstances had raised.
        Tales and Novels — Volume 04
        3
        The queer thing is that I've got the same prepossession as you.
        Huntingtower
        4
        Let us then, if possible, raise ourselves above these clouds of prepossession!
        The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor...
        5
        As to people, you are less easily converted from the original prejudice-orprepossession.
        The Price
        6
        She was then pleased to charge me with prepossession and prejudice.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
        7
        In the present case, how great was the prepossession against us?
        Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        8
        This indicates, like a hand on a dial, the stage of her prepossession.
        The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
        9
        In similar circumstances Maimonides, it seems, in intervening, yielded a little to personal prepossession.
        Rashi
        10
        The sovereign is said to have been influenced by the prepossession of the secret.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
        11
        For himself, in the utter prepossession of his passion for Alice, he cared nothing.
        In a Hollow of the Hills
        12
        All this, Clarissa, makes your prepossession in a certain man's favour the more evident.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
        13
        Those persons who are most enlightened, frequently cling on some side to the general prepossession.
        The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor...
        14
        I am charged with prepossession in another person's favour.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
        15
        Oddly enough, on the other hand, there was a prepossession, quite as unreasoning, for Hallock.
        The Taming of Red Butte Western
        16
        That was the secret of Lord Ormont's prepossession against Aminta's aunt; and who can tell?
        Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
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        Prepossession through the time
        Prepossession across language varieties
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