prepossession
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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
That opinion was then, as now, the avowed result of a theoretical prepossession; and this prepossession, as the above quotations sufficiently show, was expressly repudiated by Darwin.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
And his strong and awful prepossession in favor of the Bible led him, first of all, to go to the book.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia
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
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Society and Solitude
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