prepossession
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This prepossession dominated all professional naval minds in all countries, until the outbreak of the Great War.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
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
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
Such remarks shew the strong prepossession which existed in favour of the Buccaneers, and an eagerness undistinguishing and determined after the extraordinary.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
Only the force of the prepossession of mathematical atomism in analytic logic can account for its failure to do so.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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