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noun

Prejudice n.

1.

Foresight. (Obs.) "Naught might hinder his quick prejudize."

2.

An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. "Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man."

3.

(Law) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.

4.

Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. "England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice."

Synonyms: Prejudgment; prepossession; bias; harm; hurt; damage; detriment; mischief; disadvantage.

verb

Prejudice v. t. (past & past part. prejudiced; pres. part. prejudicing)

1.

To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. "Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning."

2.

To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. "Seek how may prejudice the foe."

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"Prejudice" Quotes from Famous Books

... natures. He had never had any real business instinct, and to swagger a little over the land he held and to treat offers of purchase with contempt was the loud assertion of a capacity he did not possess. So it was that stubborn vanity, beneath which was his angry protest against the prejudice felt by the new people of the West for the white pioneer who married an Indian, and lived the Indian life,—so it was that this gave him competence and a comfortable home after the old trader had been driven ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... forgave Miss Jean her prejudice and reflected on her attractions. I changed my mind about them later, as will appear, but that first evening she seemed to me a most piquant and dainty young lady. Slim, trim, and demure, with eyes like stars (I borrow the metaphor unblushingly), ...

— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston

... faintly on the air, as the gallant young Irishman, inclining his head slightly to the Court, retired to make way at the front, of the bar for one of his companions in misfortune. But his chivalrous bearing and noble words woke no response within the prejudice-hardened hearts of the majority of his auditors; they felt that the fearless words of the fearless youth would overbear all that his accusers had uttered, and that the world would read in them the condemnation, of the government ...

— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown

... of her fame were laid. There some of her most successful writing was composed at such an early age as to make it surprising that so young a woman could have acquired the insight into character, and the nice observation of manners which they display. 'Pride and Prejudice,' which some consider the most brilliant of her novels, was the first finished, if not the first begun. She began it in October 1796, before she was twenty-one years old, and completed it in about ten months, in August 1797. The title then intended for ...

— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh

... felt as if he did not like the look of the man at all; but at the same time he was ready to own that there might be a good deal of prejudice in the matter. ...

— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn

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