All 3 Uses of
prepossess
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Your sister need not have any scruple even of visiting HER, which, to say the truth, has been a little the case, and very naturally; for we only knew that Mrs. Jennings was the widow of a man who had got all his money in a low way; and 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.†
Chpt 33
- If she suspected ANY prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in THAT quarter.†
Chpt 37 *
- His regard for her, infinitely surpassing anything that Willoughby ever felt or feigned, as much more warm, as more sincere or constant—which ever we are to call it—has subsisted through all the knowledge of dear Marianne's unhappy prepossession for that worthless young man!†
Chpt 45
Definitions:
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(1)
(prepossess) to be preoccupied
or:
to influence opinion ahead of time -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Do not confuse this with prepossessing which means creating a favorable impression ahead of time.