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Definition of Prepossessions
1. prepossession [n] - See also: prepossession
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepossessions
Literary usage of Prepossessions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory by John Venn (1866)
"Though acquired in the most unexceptionable way such principles may, in reference
to any particular problem, be called prepossessions; and if they are ..."
2. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"These prepossessions concern, in part, the acceptance or rejection of certain
... The effect of prepossessions is, however, so peculiarly decisive in every ..."
3. India's Problem Krishna Or Christ by John Peter Jones (1903)
"(a) Study his prepossessions and then alone can you appreciate his heritage. ...
A thousand dogmas and prepossessions, the inherited treasures of thirty ..."
4. India's Problem Krishna Or Christ by John Peter Jones (1903)
"(a) Study his prepossessions and then alone can you appreciate his heritage. ...
A thousand dogmas and prepossessions, the inherited treasures of thirty ..."
5. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"THE prepossessions entertained in favor of young Edward, kept the English from
being fully sensible of the extreme loss which they had sustained by the ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"prepossessions for and against the supernatural (8 p.). J. McCosh, 9 : 21.
Proem to Genesis (20 p.). W: E. Gladstone, 28 : 614. Prof. ..."
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