prepossession

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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 Mackaye, Mary Keith Medbery

It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours!

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

This was a literary hallucination, and a remarkable evidence of a favourite position maintained merely by the force of prepossession.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

This prepossession I afterward found confirmed, not only by her own share in the conversation, but by its effect on myself; I always feel that our intercourse unfolds, not only her powers, but my own.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

Predilection, prē-di-lek′shun, n. a choosing beforehand: favourable prepossession of mind: partiality.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various