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.

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

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

It is far more probable that, approaching his subject with a strong prepossession, he was positively blind to anything that told against his own view.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various