postjudice

plural postjudices

1. An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event.

   There is another prejudice, or post-judice rather, that may have conditioned my choice of heroes and heroines.

   1999, Alistair Cooke, Memories of the Great and the Good

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   There is a mixture of good sense and of what, for want of a better name, people call prejudice: but to this mixture we owe our stability. The proper word is postjudice, a clinging to past experience, often longer than is held judicious by after times.

   1879, Charles L. Dodgson, Euclid and his Modern Rivals, Appendix II

   Prejudice, in fact, is not so much the great intellectual sin as a thing which we may call, to coin a word, “postjudice,” not the bias before the fair trial, but the bias that remains afterwards.

   1903, GK Chesterton, Robert Browning