All 3 Uses of
prejudice
in
Not Without My Daughter
- "You are prejudiced," he said.†
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- Some of the difficulties arose from racial prejudice; others from bad luck.†
- In most cases his American schooling provided prestige, but in the offices of the ayatollah's government he encountered some prejudice.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
law: In legal use, prejudice can mean harm or to cause harm. Additionally, it has a very specific meaning when seen in the form without prejudice or with prejudice. Without prejudice means that a lawsuit or proceeding ended without legal conclusions. In a civil case, that means a case could be re-filed in the future as though the proceeding never happened. With prejudice means the lawsuit or proceeding was dismissed and cannot be re-filed by the plaintiff with the same claim.