prepossession

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It is far more probable that, approaching his subject with a strong prepossession, he was positively blind to anything that told against his own view.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

It is owing to a prepossession that people say that genius must die early; I think that from the thirtieth to the thirty-fourth year has been indicated as the most dangerous period for genius.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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 Bode, Boyd H.

This was a literary hallucination, and a remarkable evidence of a favourite position maintained merely by the force of prepossession.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac