prepossession
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They were soon quite at home on the subject of education, and Dr. Halford added no little to the prepossession he had created by listening to her anxieties respecting Freddy's health with courteous interest.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.
It is organically related to the mystical prepossession of the author's manner of thinking.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
This gave real pleasure to Ellen, who thought so well of Sir Edward, as to wish he might succeed in rendering the prepossession mutual.
From Mystery and Confidence, Vol. 2 A Tale by Pinchard, Elizabeth
We are apt, under the influence of prepossession or prejudice, to remember certain coincidences better than others, and so to imagine extra-casual coincidence where none exists.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
But this prominence is also a natural result of the romanticists' prepossession with passion.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
Vocabulary lists containing prepossession
"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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