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- noun Plural form of
prejudication .
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Examples
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` ` Not at a ', man --- not at a', '' returned Mr. Jarvie; ` ` that's a 'your silly prejudications.
Rob Roy 1887
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In our case we go forward with the leading minds of our new Republic cheering us on by their communion with us, and with no prejudications to overcome, save those which arise from a lack of acquaintance with our doctrine and worship.
Pastoral letter from the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church : to the clergy and laity of the church in the Confederate States of America, delivered before the General Council, in St. Paul's Church, Augusta, Saturday, Nov. 22d, 1862, Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America 1862
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Yet Christianity was still making its way: and, amidst so many impediments to its progress, so much difficulty in procuring audience and attention, its actual success is more to be wondered at, than that it should not have universally conquered scorn and indifference, fixed the levity of a voluptuous age, or, through a cloud of adverse prejudications, opened for itself a passage to the hearts and understandings of the scholars of the age.
Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774
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“Not at a’, man — not at a’,” returned Mr. Jarvie; “that’s a’ your silly prejudications.
Rob Roy 2005
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"Not at a ', man -- not at a'," returned Mr. Jarvie; "that's a 'your silly prejudications.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Not at a ', man -- not at a'," returned Mr. Jarvie; "that's a 'your silly prejudications.
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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