The first steps taken by the young prince confirmed all those prepossessions entertained in his favor.
Instead of banishing these vain terrors by hurry, and action, and war, he waited till the soldiers should recover from the panic; and he thereby gave leisure for those prepossessions to sink still deeper into their minds.
That the inhabitants of the United States should feel strong prepossessions for the one party is not surprising.
These favorable prepossessionsof the public were encouraged by the measures which Henry embraced in the commencement of his reign.
Thus the authority of the popes, like all exorbitant power, was ruined by the excess of its acquisitions, and by stretching its pretensions beyond what it was possible for any human principles or prepossessions to sustain.
How any one, without very strong prepossessions and blindness, could think these things make a Sabbath, I could not see.
Study his prepossessions and then alone can you appreciate his heritage.
I saw the web that had thus been spread around me by hostile prepossessions and ignorant gossip: how could the arts of Margrave scatter that web to the winds?
My good sir, why these unjust prepossessions against a true friend?
The influence of habit is every where known and felt; any prepossessionstherefore in favor of our nativ town, is not a matter of surprise.
No part of Mr. Darwin's work ran more directly counter to theprepossessions of naturalists twenty years ago than this.
No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth.
Prepossessions being thus overthrown, when I read the apostolic epistles with a view to this special question, the proof so multiplied against the Church doctrine, that I did not see what was left to be said for it.
Steeped and dyed in their own national prepossessions they regard other national prepossessions with indifference, amazement, or hostility.
Even Jefferson laid aside his early prepossessions in favor of a simple bucolic life for the American citizen, and admitted that "to be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them for ourselves.
And there is every excuse for her deep-seated prepossessions against her brother Bernard's family.
It is curious and sad to see how very deep down are her prepossessions on that subject.
Decatur, however, also shared, and shared inevitably, the prepossessions of his day.
Nothing can be more indicative of the true moral state of the Americans; they hang between the past and the future, with many of the feudal prepossessions of the past, mingled with the democratic aspirations which relate to the future.
In England, there is a growing taste for works which exhibit the life of the lower orders of society, though all aristocratic prepossessions appear in practice as strong as ever.
If they differ, he is perplexed, does not know whom to believe, and decides, probably, in accordance withprepossessions of his own.
I imagined, by the mildness of her tone and manners, that her unfavourable prepossessions were removed; but they seemed to have suddenly regained their pristine force.
Her prepossessions are reasonable, but are easily removed by telling the truth.
She made me no answer, but somewhat in her looks seemed to evince that my favourable prepossessions were just.
My wife's prepossessionswere still more powerful advocates of this youth.
Differences in thy prepossessions of your audience and in their knowledge of the subject have, therefore, a direct and practical effect on the planning of your argument.
Note whether the burden of proof is with you or against you, taking into account the probable prepossessions of the audience you have selected.
Always, one must remember that the burden of proof depends on the prepossessions of the audience, and that on the same question it may change within a moderately small number of years.
Name three questions in which the evidence would be affected by temperamental and other prepossessions of the witness.
On this point knowledge of your readers, of their acquaintance with the subject, and of their prepossessions will count as much as knowledge of the subject when you come to the arguments of practical life.
So in a debate on the "closed shop," in most workingmen's clubs the negative would be able to accomplish little, for the other side would be intrenched in the prejudices and prepossessions of the audience.
But when you get out into the world, you will have to consider in each case the needs and prepossessions of the particular audience.
You can hardly consider the burden of proof or lay out the space which you will give to different points in your argument unless you take into account the present knowledge and the prepossessions of your audience on the subject.
Enter the audience for whom your argument might be written, and note what you think would be their knowledge of the subject, and their prepossessions toward it.
Before setting to work on the actual planning of your argument there are still two preliminary questions you have to consider--the prepossessions of your audience, and the burden of proof; of these the latter is dependent on the former.
He fought against his own convictions, the hereditary and ineffaceable prepossessions implanted in the heart by a parent.
But the prepossessionsof Flora were unalienably engaged in favour of the exiled Stuarts; and they were not, perhaps, the less likely to glow from being necessarily suppressed.
His expectation that the morrow would prove the decisive day was reinforced by one of those prepossessions for coincidences, half jesting, half serious, which are natural to men, but fall too far short of conviction to be called superstitious.
When he returned in 1803, the old prepossessions naturally remained.
Critical estimate of Browning's poetry was for years hampered by, and cannot even yet be said to have been quite cleared from, the violent prepossessions of public opinion respecting him.
Time, prepossessions in regard to the duration of past, 62.
Prepossessions in regard to the duration of past time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prepossessions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
