All 6 Uses of
bias
in
Mansfield Park
- Which you suppose has biassed me?
Chpt 11biassed = made unobjective (caused an opinion to go in one direction rather than permitting fair consideration)
- On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me.
Chpt 11bias = influence to think in a particular way
- I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life. ... I hope I should not have been influenced myself in a wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have allowed it. I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly.
Chpt 11biased = influenced to think in a particular way
- I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune. I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.
Chpt 35 *bias = tendency to think in a particular way
- In the calmness of her own dressing-room, in the impartial flow of her own meditations, unbiassed by his bewildering statements, she could not acknowledge any necessity for Fanny's ever going near a father and mother who had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself.†
Chpt 37
- He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.
Chpt 41bias = influence to think in a particular way
Definition:
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(bias) a personal preference -- especially a prejudice that prevents objective consideration
or:
any tendency to move in a particular direction -- such as a car that tends to want to swerve toward the right