prepossession
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And so, when facts come to light which do not chime in with his prepossession, he does his best either to discredit them or to set them down as immoral, heretical or contrary to policy.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
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
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 George John Romanes
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.
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 Boyd H. Bode
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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