prepossession

The notice was too short after so long a prepossession the other way.

And here we see the influence of metaphysical prepossession.

His gaze is severe, wide-eyed and fixed straight ahead in fierce prepossession.

Apart from any natural prepossession in my own favour, I believed I was.

I never saw him exhibit such an air of dissatisfaction, or appear so much under the influence of some prepossession.

In neither of these cases was telepathy or the prepossession of the medium a possible explanation.

It encourages me to indulge my prepossession in his favour; and you know not with what pain I should have repressed the sentiment!

Despite his utter lack of physical prepossession, however, he gave one the impression of shrewd competency.

Never had a gloomy idea, an evil prepossession, or a keen remorse, arisen to disturb his long and peaceful life.

How incorrigible was that prepossession!

Külpe attributed this presupposition to 'metaphysical prepossession'.

He conceded that the mind cannot directly be forced to assent to a proposition, but held that penal laws can break the weight of intellectual prepossession.

If she suspected ANY prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in THAT quarter.

A set of beaded ear pendants with dangling metal triangles conferred elegance and prepossession on a Masai wife in Kenya.

"I begged her to satisfy herself that she had no prepossession left in her mind and heart, and she answered me she never could be more determined!"

I verily believe that spight and passion would have killed her, had I not luckily discovered her prepossession in favour of Cherry Brandy.

The "self" is the "Neither-Neither," nothing omitted, indissoluble, beyond prepossession; dissociation of conception by its own invincible love is the only true, safe, and free.

The fat boy's perception being slow, he looked rather puzzled at first to account for this sudden prepossession in his favour, and stared about him in a very alarming manner.

Le Pelletier was outwardly a man of little prepossession, short, swarthy, he was as if crumpled up, soiled and thrown into the gutter by some vindictive force.

In fine, I conceived at first sight equal disgust for her, and prepossession in favour of her Husband, whose appearance was calculated to inspire esteem and confidence.

It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm prepossession.

It's just that the Victorian classic is inescapably the model for Mr. Salisbury's high-blown language, incessant word play - from the title on down - and prepossession with confusion of identity.

She could not help thinking much of the extraordinary circumstances attending their acquaintance, of the right which he seemed to have to interest her, by everything in situation, by his own sentiments, by his early prepossession.

At all events, what ever steps you may take, what ever may be the Duke's decision, till you know it let me beg your forbearing to strengthen by your presence Antonia's prepossession.

Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.