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Prejudice

noun

A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation. Synonyms: bias, preconception.

verb

(past & past part. prejudiced; pres. part. prejudicing)

Disadvantage by prejudice.

Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance. Synonym: prepossess.

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"Prejudice" Quotes from Famous Books

... not betray your ignorance on subjects about which you are evidently in midnight darkness." She was some ways from me, but I heard her continue: "Was there ever anything like this Northern ignorance and prejudice about the ...

— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

... youth now seems to me rather more alien My reading gave me no standing among the boys Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader None of the passions are reasoned Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome Rapture of the new convert could not last Responsibility of finding him all we have been told he is Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise ...

— Widger's Quotations from the Works of William Dean Howells • David Widger

... the Demon with easy raillery. 'You know your game—I mine! I really want the good people to be happy; dancing, kissing, propagating, what you will. We quite agree. You can have no objection to me, but a foolish old prejudice—not personal, but class; an antipathy of the cowl, for which I pardon you! What I should find in you to complain of—I have only to mention it, I am sure—is, that perhaps you do speak a little too much through ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... spite of prejudice, church decoration is so much the custom of our day, it is worth our while to consider seriously how best to carry it out, and search into the principles which may apply to all ecclesiastical embroideries, whether they are to be dedicated in the Minster, ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... Prejudice, perhaps, but unions between the sons of Mars and the daughters of Terpsichore were in those days frowned upon by the military big-wigs at the Horse Guards. Hence, it was not long before an inspired note on the subject of this one appeared in ...

— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

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