Definition of Prepossessions. Meaning of Prepossessions. Synonyms of Prepossessions

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Definition of Prepossessions

Prepossession
Prepossession Pre`pos*ses"sion, n. 1. Preoccupation; prior possession. --Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood. ``The prejudices and prepossessions of the country.' --Sir W. Scott. Syn: Bent; bias; inclination; preoccupancy; prejudgment. See Bent.

Meaning of Prepossessions from wikipedia

- ought to be exercised by none who are not thoroughly weaned from the prepossessions and habits incident to foreign birth and education. The term of nine...
- a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues...
- the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned....
- conception of history, were entirely out of harmony with Morison's prepossessions. Yet in his anxiety to do justice to his subject, he steeped himself...
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- belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably suc****b – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers...
- and so completely has the author divested herself of all in lividual prepossessions, that it may be doubted whether from a single p****age in the whole work...
- Europe was that his lucidity and method of presentation awakened a prepossession in favour of Arabic literature among the scholars of the West: the methods...
- watch with jealousy the secret workings of my own personal feelings and prepossessions. Such vigilance is a matter of necessity to every writer of history...