prepossessin a sentence
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The idea of his failure prepossesses him.†prepossesses = preoccupies (influences him from the outset)
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I begged her to satisfy herself that she had no prepossession left in her mind and heart, and she answered me she never could be more determined!† (source)
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Her going was a reproach to them, gave a different twist to the world, so that they were led to protest, seeing their own prepossessions disappear, and clutch at them vanishing.† (source)
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It shocked him a little that she should give him so marked a lead: it did not tally altogether with his prepossessions about the modesty of the feminine temperament.† (source)
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His prepossessions all moved him to mercy.† (source)
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What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that?† (source)
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And unless I deceive myself on a point where my interests or prepossessions are certainly not concerned, I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Pocket's children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.† (source)
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As to her younger daughters, she could not take upon her to say—she could not positively answer—but she did not know of any prepossession; her eldest daughter, she must just mention—she felt it incumbent on her to hint, was likely to be very soon engaged.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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From the very first accounts in the newspapers I was struck by something which strongly prepossessed me in the prisoner's favor.† (source)
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M. Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.† (source)
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You know my political prepossessions.† (source)
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And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.† (source)
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She did not like him, and feared him privately; nor was he very much prepossessed in her favour.† (source)
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The approach was not such as to prepossess people—an ill-smelling, dark passage, a staircase half-lighted by bars through which stole a glimmer from a neighboring yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.† (source)
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And despite the prepossessions and prejudices of the multitude, they shouted unanimously as the knight rode into the tiltyard, The second glance, however, served to destroy the hope that his timely arrival had excited.† (source)
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The notice was too short after so long a prepossession the other way.† (source)
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