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Louis paused and thought, and had not his prepossessions been so complete as they were, the plain truth which the valet told him might not have been unproductive of fruit.

Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.

I may be foolish to do so--the prepossession may be false--the motives for such belief may be slight; but yet that belief is strong.

So great became the pressure of public opinion against the opposition offered to the measure by official prepossessions and prejudices that in 1838 the House of Commons appointed a committee to examine the subject.

A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination.