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prepossessed en · ADJ
Meanings
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(dated, literary) To 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:
Forms
Deriveds
prepossessedly · prepossessedness · unprepossessed
prepossessed en · VERB
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(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of prepossess