Sentence example with the word 'prepossession'

prepossession

adoption, colonization, fascination, fiefdom, idee fixe, mandate, particular choice, preemption, presurmise, takeover, underlease

Definition n. the condition of being prepossessed

Last update: June 10, 2015


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To Gesenius belongs in a large measure the credit of having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and of inaugurating the strictly scientific (and comparative) method which has since been so fruitful.   [Please select]

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Strindberg wrote of Gauguin's first exhibition and expressed dislike for the artist's prepossession with form, and for the savage models he chose.   [Please select]

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It may take him two or three years to come even on it; but it is a prepossession with him.   [Please select]

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'Is there any fatal bar--has any prepossession--' 'None, sir,' answered Flora.   [Please select]

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No social interest, no personal prepossession, has attracted them to my work.   [Please select]

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In all the world there is nothing so well calculated to sap a man's prepossession as the feeling that he is secretly observed.   [Please select]

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This seems perfectly natural to anyone who considers the following facts: The sharp distinction between the mind and the body is, as we shall find, a very ancient and spontaneous uncritical savage prepossession.   [Please select]

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