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
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
Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favour of this journal; but also the circumstance that it—cost him nothing.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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
Despite so many circumstances to prepossess him in favor of the Americans, he appears not a very ardent admirer of what he witnesses about him.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
