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Definition
to have unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group
or more generally:
to have (or create in others) an unreasonable belief that prevents objective (unbiased) consideration of an issue or situation
or more generally:
to have (or create in others) an unreasonable belief that prevents objective (unbiased) consideration of an issue or situation
- I was afraid old Mrs. Flint had tried to prejudice her against me, and I did my best to please her.16 — Scenes At The Plantation (78% in)
- She told me she was an English woman, and that was a pleasant circumstance to me, because I had heard they had less prejudice against color than Americans entertained.33 — A Home Found (15% in)
- Prejudice Against Color.35 — Prejudice Against Color (0% in)
- Being in servitude to the Anglo-Saxon race, I was not put into a "Jim Crow car," on our way to Rockaway, neither was I invited to ride through the streets on the top of trunks in a truck; but every where I found the same manifestations of that cruel prejudice, which so discourages the feelings, and represses the energies of the colored people.35 — Prejudice Against Color (54% in)
- The contemptuous manner in which the communion had been administered to colored people, in my native place; the church membership of Dr. Flint, and others like him; and the buying and selling of slaves, by professed ministers of the gospel, had given me a prejudice against the Episcopal church.37 — A Visit To England (90% in)
- During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of prejudice against color.37 — A Visit To England (98% in)
- The new Mrs. Bruce was an American, brought up under aristocratic influences, and still living in the midst of them; but if she had any prejudice against color, I was never made aware of it; and as for the system of slavery, she had a most hearty dislike of it.40 — The Fugitive Slave Law (11% in)
There are no more uses of "prejudice" in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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