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prepossessed

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of prepossess

adjective more prepossessed · most prepossessed

  1. dated, literary To be entirely consumed or gripped by a preconceived opinion or expectation, leaving no room for alternative judgement. '[…] 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. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both.'

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@misc{prepossessed_2026,
  title = {prepossessed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prepossessed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}