prepossession
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The Anthologies of Diabolical Literature may be considered, I trust, without any risk of offence to any theological or philosophical prepossession.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
He ought to have an enthusiastic prepossession in favour of his candidate.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
We must approach the whole subject of split or duplicated personalities with no prepossession against the possibility of any given arrangement or division of the total mass of consciousness which exists within us.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
In attempting this the writer does so not from the standpoint of the theologian or the professional clergyman, but from that of a liberal thinker with mind unfettered by any prepossession.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
I cannot take it upon myself to say—I cannot possibly answer—but I do not know of any prepossession in her case, and I am sure she can have no objection to listen to you.
From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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