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.
A prepossession of this kind was an unhappy one, and easily affiliated itself with the spirit of the house, which was markedly a quarrelsome spirit.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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
A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The countenance and appearance of Chapelle Marteau confirmed any prepossession in his favour.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
Vocabulary lists containing prepossession
"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Society and Solitude
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