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parti pris

[ par-tee pree ]

noun

French.
  1. a position or attitude resolved upon or taken in advance.


parti pris

/ parti pri /

noun

  1. a preconceived opinion
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of parti pris1

C19: literally: side taken
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The unbalanced supreme court, soon to embrace another arch-conservative, is no defence against White House abuse of executive orders, and parti pris American media cannot be relied upon to tell truth to power.

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But they decided to treat the question as one treats a scientific matter—with perseverance, with courage, and without parti pris of any kind.

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Bute, however, approached the subject in his usual attitude of complete intellectual detachment, with no trace of parti pris.

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But that, I admit," I added, "strikes one always as a sort of parti pris with her.

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We prefer the austerer Ibsen, who presents his men and women within the frame of the drama, absolutely without personal comment or parti pris—as before his decadence did Tolstoy in his novels.

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