"prepossessing" meaning in English

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          "text": "an unprepossessing manner",
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          "text": "\"I am a great advocate for timidity—and I am sure one does not often meet with it.—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.\"",
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          "text": "Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.",
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          "text": "These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.",
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          "text": "The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.",
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          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
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        "Causing prejudice."
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        "(archaic) Causing prejudice."
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