prepossess
Example Sentences
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His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion.
From Time Magazine Archive
His appearance and manners were such as at once to prepossess the Spaniards in his favor.
From Elsie in the South by Martha Finley
In fact, my appearance was by no means calculated to prepossess people in my favour.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
And thus much may be safely inferred, viz. that the desire is, at any rate, to prepossess favourably the person approached.
From The Idea of God in Early Religions by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Neither did the puff preliminary, which heralded the appearance of this volume, prepossess us strongly in its favour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
