"prepossession" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From pre- + possession.",
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    "pre‧pos‧sess‧ion"
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        {
          "ref": "1791 August 19, letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson",
          "text": "I am fully sensible to the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and prepossession, which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:",
          "text": "It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm prepossession.",
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        "Preoccupation; having possession beforehand."
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        "(uncountable) Preoccupation; having possession beforehand."
      ],
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          "ref": "1902, William James, “Lecture XVIII: Philosophy”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 455:",
          "text": "The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions.",
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        "A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice."
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        "(countable) A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice."
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      "ipa": "/ˌpɹiːpəˈzɛʃn̩/",
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      "ipa": "/ˌpɹipəˈzɛʃən/",
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      "rhymes": "-ɛʃən"
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        },
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          "ref": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:",
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        "Preoccupation; having possession beforehand."
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        "(uncountable) Preoccupation; having possession beforehand."
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          "text": "The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions.",
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        "(countable) A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice."
      ],
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