prepossessed

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adjective

To be entirely consumed or gripped by a preconceived opinion or expectation, leaving no room for alternative judgement.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of prepossess
adjectiveprepossessed (comparative more prepossessed, superlative most prepossessed)

comparative more prepossessed · superlative most prepossessed

  1. datedliteraryTo be entirely consumed or gripped by a preconceived opinion or expectation, leaving no room for alternative judgement.

    '[…] Fanny and Mrs. Ferrars were both strongly prepossessed that neither she nor her daughters were such kind of women as Fanny would like to associate with. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both.'

    1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
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