prepossession
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A Correspondent of mine, upon this Subject, has divided the Female Part of the Audience, and accounts for their Prepossession against this reasonable Delight in the following Manner.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Juvenal shews his Aversion to this Prepossession, when his old disgusted Friend gives this among the rest of his Reasons why he left the Town, —Mentiri nescio: librum Si malus est, nequeo laudare & poscere.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel
Prepossession is a mingled state of feeling and opinion in respect to some person or subject, which has laid hold of and occupied the mind previous to inquiry.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Prepossession, 412; and egoism, 413; and names, 414.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
Prepossession has almost everything to do with the commencement of belief.
From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Society and Solitude
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