All 11 Uses of
prejudice
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "My hair was quite long till yesterday, when I cut it off; but I dare say it will grow again very soon," she added apologetically, thinking it probable the gypsies had a strong prejudice in favor of long hair.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- Chapter VI Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife In that dark time of December, the sale of the household furniture lasted beyond the middle of the second day.†
Chpt 3.6
- I should begin to have a prejudice against them.†
Chpt 5.4
- Since you are my tutor, you ought to preserve my mind from prejudices; you are always arguing against prejudices.†
Chpt 5.4
- Since you are my tutor, you ought to preserve my mind from prejudices; you are always arguing against prejudices.†
Chpt 5.4
- I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices.†
Chpt 6.8
- But to minds strongly marked by the positive and negative qualities that create severity,—strength of will, conscious rectitude of purpose, narrowness of imagination and intellect, great power of self-control, and a disposition to exert control over others,—prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth.†
Chpt 6.12
- Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,—however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.†
Chpt 6.12
- Every prejudice that will answer these purposes is self-evident.†
Chpt 6.12
- Our good, upright Tom Tulliver's mind was of this class; his inward criticism of his father's faults did not prevent him from adopting his father's prejudice; it was a prejudice against a man of lax principle and lax life, and it was a meeting-point for all the disappointed feelings of family and personal pride.†
Chpt 6.12
- Our good, upright Tom Tulliver's mind was of this class; his inward criticism of his father's faults did not prevent him from adopting his father's prejudice; it was a prejudice against a man of lax principle and lax life, and it was a meeting-point for all the disappointed feelings of family and personal pride.†
Chpt 6.12
Definition:
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(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group