preopinion

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noun

Opinion previously formed; prejudice.

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Meanings

nounpreopinion (uncountable)
  1. uncountableOpinion previously formed; prejudice.

    an indistinct voracity eating almost any [foods]; others out of a timorous pre-opinion refraining very many

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From pre- + opinion.

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Chicago

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