Prepossessions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREPOSSESSIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PREPOSSESSION, a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything seeming to be counter to it
• a preconceived opinion; a prejudice
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• prior possession

Words related to PREPOSSESSIONS

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How to use PREPOSSESSIONS in a sentence

• Statesmen and lawyers divided in their interpretation of it, according to their prepossessions for or against the creation and exercise of a strong central authority.
• Cobb, of Georgia, is, considering the natural prepossessions of the author, singularly calm and candid.
• Lord Thomas Villiers was filled with too many prepossessions and too much pride, easily to retract an opinion he had once adopted, or to forgive an opposition to his judgment.
• It has appeared also, that the prepossessions of the people, on whom both will depend, will be more on the side of the State governments, than of the federal government.
• The latter, by the mode of their appointment, as well as by the nature and permanency of it, are too far removed from the people to share much in their prepossessions.
• In such a posture of things, the public decision might be less swayed by prepossessions in favor of the legislative party.
• Consistently with such prepossessions, they held obstinately to the notion of some beginning, and therefore some ending of the ordered world.
• Their offence is that they are free, and that their habits and prepossessions are those of Freedom.
• The party prepossessions and party expectations of his constituents alone make it possible for them to think and feel with him.
• It would be so manifest that this morsel of evidence had been falsely concocted, that no clear-headed man, let his prepossessions be what they might, could doubt it.
• That the inhabitants of the United States should feel strong prepossessions for the one party is not surprising.
• When he returned in 1803, the old prepossessions naturally remained.
• We need not dissemble the truth about certain prepossessions current in Europe.
• No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth.
• We learned to discard prepossessions, and try to see things as they really are.
• As even Sir Charles Brown-Harland remarked, she habitually takes her prepossessions for facts, her inferences for observations.
• Thus, they were full of prejudices, prepossessions, and foregone conclusions, all of which had the sanction of their culture.
• The first measures which Mary embraced confirmed all the prepossessions entertained in her favor.
• The national prepossessions which prevail, will perhaps render the former liberty not the least perilous for an author.
• These favorable prepossessions of the public were encouraged by the measures which Henry embraced in the commencement of his reign.
• Men, I believe, are seldom struck with these sudden prepossessions in favour of each other.
• The Suders had not these prepossessions for their native soil.
• Carelessness, prepossessions, and ignorance have disfigured them with false colors and foreign additions without number.
• He was quite ready to submit his prepossessions to the test and limitation of facts.
• Such a hovering Faith as this, which refuses to settle upon any Determination, is absolutely necessary to a Mind that is careful to avoid Errors and Prepossessions.
• Narrow-minded prejudices and prepossessions are imbibed through the facility with which, in our own little community, we adopt and maintain opinions.
• Washington, on the contrary, harbored no prepossessions for or against the black man.
• The form underlying public opinion is sound common sense, which is a fundamental ethical principle winding its way through everything, in spite of prepossessions.
• Anything great and rational is eventually sure to please public opinion, to be espoused by it, and to be made one of its prepossessions.
• For Racine, with his prepossessions of sublimity and perfection, some such barrier between his universe and reality was involved in the very nature of his art.
• What people have not examined without prepossessions, they have not examined thoroughly.
• He approaches this question free from any doctrinal prepossessions whatever.
• I am here to speak the truth and not to flatter the prejudices and prepossessions of any man.
• Giles surveyed the new-comer with no very sanguine prepossessions in his behalf.
• But both youth and age can fight by the power of the human will against the tendencies which steep them in their own prepossessions.

Similar words containing POSSESSION without suffix s and without prefix pre

possession12 possessions13 possessional14 possessioned15 repossession14 dispossession16 nonpossession15 possessionary18 possessionate15 prepossession17 repossessions15 dispossessions17 nonpossessions16 possessionates16 possessionless16

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